View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to segregation opponents who showed up at Richard Daley's house?
(a) A firetruck was dispatched to scatter the gathering with its fire hoses.
(b) Police forces arrived to arrest all that were involved.
(c) The gathering was joined by neighborhood supporters who considered segregation in Chicago unjust.
(d) His neigbors pelted them with rocks.

2. To what did Richard Daley credit his large majorities in African-American precincts?
(a) His door-to-door campaigning.
(b) Street repair projects.
(c) The involvement of Martin Luther King in civil rights controversies.
(d) His decision to move into an African-American neighborhood to initiate desegregation efforts.

3. Where were the headquarters of the Chicago Democrat Party in relation to Richard Daley's office?
(a) Across the street.
(b) In the public library.
(c) Near Comisky Park.
(d) On the south side of Michigan Avenue.

4. By what kind of margin did Richard Daley win the election to his fifth term?
(a) He ran unopposed.
(b) The election was cancelled as his opponent died in a mysterious auto accident a week before the election.
(c) The closest margin of his career.
(d) One of the largest margins in his career.

5. After the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, how many people were considered to be more powerful than Richard Daley?
(a) President Kennedy and Sam Rayburn.
(b) President Kennedy, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) President Kennedy, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
(d) Just President Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Richard Daley appoint to take care of the 1960 police department scandal?

3. In earlier times how did ward committeemen win influence over immigrants?

4. Richard Daley and who else knew how many patronage jobs existed?

5. What happened to honest officials in the department that became troublesome for Richard Daley?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 515 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample