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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the results of the election leading to Richard Daley's fourth term?
(a) Daley was forced to dispatch more street repair projects than he ever had.
(b) Daley won with 73 percent of the vote.
(c) Daley won a narrow victory.
(d) His opponent died in a mysterious auto accident two days before the election.

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

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

4. How did Richard Daley respond to the outbreaks?
(a) He issued shoot to kill orders against arsonists and shoot to maim orders against looters.
(b) He had a city hall meeting with civil rights advocates to get their input for a new police chief.
(c) He ordered a restoration of Chief Wilson's policies in the African American neighborhoods.
(d) He restored water services to the fire hydrants in the neighborhood.

5. What did Richard Daley do through the evenings of the 1920's after he was finished with his day job with the City?
(a) He tended bar for several illegal speakeasies.
(b) He attended DePaul Law School.
(c) He wrote campaign speeches for Democrat dignitaries.
(d) He drove a truck delivering coal to factories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resulted from the high ranking personnel change that came to Daley at the beginning of his fourth term?

2. Who was the last elected Chicago Mayor before Richard Daley?

3. What caused an outbreak of fires and looting on Chicago's West Side African-American neighborhoods during Richard Daley's fourth term?

4. What nickname did Richard Daley earn while national attention was focused on Chicago?

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

(see the answer key)

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