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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would happen to ward committeemen if they did not deliver votes on election day?
(a) The Democratic Party poured more campaign funds in his area for the next election.
(b) He would end up, "sleeping with the fishes."
(c) Their precinct lost funding for projects he requested.
(d) They lost their position with the Cook County Democratic Central Committee.

2. What major political event was guided by Richard Daley's leadership in 1956?
(a) The Democratic National Convention.
(b) Harry Truman held up a copy of the Chicago Tribune that announced, "Dewey Defeats Truman!"
(c) Vice President Richard Nixon's "Kitchen Debate" with Nikita Nikita Khrushchev.
(d) President Dwight D. Eisenhower's announcement that he was running for re-election.

3. How were many of the precinct committee positions earned through the years?
(a) Through family connections or nepotism.
(b) Through paying for favors or graft.
(c) Through winning public support for a cause or virtue.
(d) Through hard work or devotion.

4. What is the name of a famous criminal that Mayor Big Bill Thompson allowed to walk freely through the streets of Chicago?
(a) Al Capone.
(b) John Dillinger.
(c) Bugs Moran.
(d) "Pretty Boy" Floyd.

5. Who did Richard Daley help to get nominated for the 1956 Democratic candidate for president?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Adalai Stevenson.

6. What happened when the incumbent mayor before Richard Daley made his appeal before the Cook County Central Committee that was chaired by Daley?
(a) Daley was drafted to run for Mayor.
(b) He declared that he changed parties to Republican and ran with that party.
(c) He died in an auto accident days before the election and Daley appointed himself as candidate after the death.
(d) He was fired by the committee and Daley appointed himself.

7. How many patronage jobs did Vito Marzullo have for his precinct?
(a) 400 per zip code.
(b) 4000.
(c) 40.
(d) 400.

8. What was one of Richard Daley's first achievements as mayor?
(a) He won additional funds for Chicago public schools.
(b) He established a new affordable bus service to enhance mass transit.
(c) He got federal funds to make Chicago streets part of the Interstate Highway system.
(d) He sought and received increased tax revenue through the Republican Governor of Illinois.

9. What did Royko state disturbed Richard Daley?
(a) Republicans.
(b) His friends being caught in corruption.
(c) Anti-war protestors.
(d) Public displays of immorality.

10. Into what type of neighborhood was Richard Daley born?
(a) Slavic-Orthodox on the Southest corner of Chicago.
(b) Irish-Catholic on the South-side of Chicago.
(c) French-Catholic on the shores of Lake Michigan.
(d) German-Lutheran on the Northwest corner of Chicago.

11. Royko reported that ___________ were not upset with Richard Daley's abuses of power.
(a) Presidents.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Chicagoans.

12. What were the campaign issues pressed by the Republican candidate in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?
(a) School funding and violent crime.
(b) Corruption in the Police Department and the Democratic Machine.
(c) Inconsistent garbage removal and government waste.
(d) Equal rights and desegregation.

13. In what year did Richard Daley earn a position in the Cook County Democratic Central Committee?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1936.

14. What role did Joe McDonough play in shaping Richard Daley's political career?
(a) He chose Daley as his Chief of Staff.
(b) He introduced Daley to his wife.
(c) He taught Daley the ins and outs of Chicago's political machine.
(d) He rented a room to Daley so he could get to work on time.

15. If Chicagoans were disagreeable when they raised complaints to the city, how did Richard Daley regard their complaint?
(a) He would send the complaint to the appropriate committee.
(b) He tried not to get involved as the situation could become politically challenging.
(c) He would take extra care to see their complaint was answered.
(d) He would see to it that their situation got worse than when they registered their complaint.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Richard Daley's day begin and end?

2. Why did Royko consider Richard Daley to be a believable father figure to Chicagoans?

3. Who was the Republican candidate opposing Richard Daley in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?

4. What did Richard Daley present himself as in his first campaign for Mayor?

5. Richard Daley became connected with a judge named Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. How did they meet?

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