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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was a police action in April of 1968 characterized by observers?
(a) The threats of McCarthy supporters is discounted as an easily handled threat.
(b) The unattached Kennedy delegates inspire political activists of all types to go to Chicago to demonstrate.
(c) It is called a police riot.
(d) The demands of African-American delegates are considered seriously by the Democrat Convention Platform Committee.

2. What did Richard Daley actually do with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?
(a) He did not follow up on his promises to reform the Police Department after the deaths of the Black Panthers.
(b) He took money out of the Cook County Democratic Party campaign fund to pay back City Hall for the party expenses.
(c) He took money from City Hall to pay back the Cook County Democratic Party for the Bahamas trip expenses.
(d) The political advisor was actually a close friend from the Democratic Central Committee and they just spent an increasing amount of time together.

3. What did Richard Daley present himself as in his first campaign for Mayor?
(a) He ran as a fiscal conservative who would balance budgets.
(b) He ran as a law and order candidate devoted to fighting crime.
(c) He ran as a skillful mediator who could handle conflicts.
(d) He presented himself as a hard-working family man.

4. What was Richard Daley's unusual moral code?
(a) Thou shalt not steal but though shalt not blow the whistle on anybody who does.
(b) Do as I say, not as I do.
(c) Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Democrat.
(d) I don't care what you do as long as I don't catch you doing it.

5. What were the issues that Richard Daley's opponent raised during the election before his fourth term?
(a) The increasing taxes on property and regulations against businesses.
(b) Increasing federal intrusion and insufficient education funding.
(c) Daley's harsh law enforcement tactics and racial tension.
(d) Inadequate housing and bans against African-Americans in Chicago's labor unions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a famous criminal that Mayor Big Bill Thompson allowed to walk freely through the streets of Chicago?

2. What would happen to ward committeemen if they did not deliver votes on election day?

3. Why is the Chicago race riot of 1919 an important event in Richard Daley's history?

4. What was Richard Daley able to accomplish with the additional funding that the Republican Governor of Illinois granted to Chicago in 1956?

5. How were patronage jobs issued in Chicago?

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