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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the year of the election for Richard Daley's fourth term?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1970.

2. 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.

3. What personal relationship was Richard Daley maintaining that gave him the incentive to do well when he was working for Joe McDonough in the Cook County Treasurer's Office?
(a) He served as liaison between Al Capone and his syndicate while he was in prison.
(b) He began working with a young politician named Adalai Stevenson.
(c) He started doing business with Joe Kennedy.
(d) He began dating his future wife, Eleanor.

4. How were the various Chicago neighborhoods sustained economically?
(a) Each neighborhood was able to earn federal funds to support racial minorities.
(b) Each neighborhood had industrial plants to employ local residents.
(c) Each neighborhood had a core of entreprenuers who created jobs.
(d) Each neighborhood had a connection with organized crime and rum runners.

5. How long was Richard Daley on the city payroll?
(a) Sporadically over five decades.
(b) 53 years.
(c) At least the next 48 years.
(d) 23 years as mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Richard Daley replace at the beginning of his fourth term?

2. Who did Richard Daley help to get nominated for the 1956 Democratic candidate for president?

3. What happened when Richard Daley ran for his second term?

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

5. Upon what has Richard Daley's quick rise in political influence been credited?

(see the answer key)

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