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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was among the influences for which Vito Marzullo was well known?
(a) Selecting judges.
(b) Eliminated political enemies.
(c) "Voting the graveyard."
(d) Finding new political talent.

2. Richard Daley became connected with a judge named Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. How did they meet?
(a) They met when Marovitz was prosecuting one of Daley's gangster friends.
(b) They met when Marovitz was a young prosecutor and Daley was a clerk in the City Council.
(c) They met when Daley took his only defense stand against Marovitz.
(d) They met at the wedding of Daley and his wife.

3. How did Royko describe Richard Daley's response to political brawls in Chicago?
(a) He would call a truce and negotiate between the warring factions.
(b) He would take sides and use his power to crush his opponents.
(c) He'd sit in the middle of it all and and look as happy as a kid at a birthday party.
(d) He would ignore it had let it take its course.

4. What supplemental role did the Chicago Police Department perform for Richard Daley?
(a) It would accomany him to important public meetings.
(b) It provided security for visiting dignitaries.
(c) It made itself available for security to the Democrat Party.
(d) It acted as his spy division.

5. Why did Royko suggest that immigrants were tolerant of Richard Daley's abuses of power?
(a) They would get their kick-back.
(b) They knew if they were patient they would get theirs.
(c) He abused power for their benefit.
(d) They were accustomed to czars, kings, and emperors using power like a club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Richard Daley's unusual moral code?

2. What skills did Richard Daley learn in the Christian Brothers technical school?

3. What did Richard Daley provide these organizations to maintain their support?

4. Who was the president who appointed Abraham Marovitz and what year was it done?

5. What organizations gave Richard Daley his most loyal support?

(see the answer key)

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