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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were some of the other visible changes that Richard Daley made during his first year as mayor?
(a) He improved roads and streets, established a new bus system, and added an additional day to trash pick-up.
(b) He hired more cops and firemen, converted empty lots into city parks, and established a new bus system.
(c) He established a new bus system, converted empty lots into city parks, and added a day to trash pick-up.
(d) He hired more cops and firemen, and he improved roads and street lighting.

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

3. Richard Daley became connected with a judge named Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. How did they meet?
(a) They met when Marovitz was a young prosecutor and Daley was a clerk in the City Council.
(b) They met at the wedding of Daley and his wife.
(c) They met when Daley took his only defense stand against Marovitz.
(d) They met when Marovitz was prosecuting one of Daley's gangster friends.

4. What event led to the biggest scandal of Richard Daley's second term as mayor?
(a) A burglar was arrested.
(b) A former ward committeeman went public with how precincts would routinely, "Vote the graveyard."
(c) The Attorney General of Illinois investigated and took steps to take control of the Real Estate Division of the City of Chicago.
(d) Three civil rights activists were found beaten to death and buried at a construction site outside of Chicago.

5. Who was the president that Richard Daley supposedly helped to elect?
(a) Harry S. Truman.
(b) Adalai Stevenson.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What past time of Joe McDonough helped Richard Daley earn political status and why?

2. How old was Richard Daley when he became a precinct captain for a South Side ward?

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?

4. What is the topic for Chapter II?

5. What was in the front and back of Richard Daley's house?

(see the answer key)

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