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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the reputation of the mayor who preceded Richard Daley?
(a) He was a weak token.
(b) He was too stingy with patronage jobs.
(c) He was too easy on Republicans.
(d) He was too easy on non-voting immigrants.

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

3. What nickname did Richard Daley earn while national attention was focused on Chicago?
(a) "Daley the developer."
(b) "Richard the lionhearted."
(c) "Dick the bruiser."
(d) "Dick the builder."

4. In Chicago City Hall, Richard Daley was known by all of the following except:
(a) The Man on the Fifth.
(b) The Big Guy.
(c) Duh Mare.
(d) Hizzoner.

5. Daley did not personally attack his opponent, but what was one of the things the Democratic Machine did during the election?
(a) It doctored documents that showed Daley's opponent stole public money for his business.
(b) It stole yard signs of Daley's opponent.
(c) It passed around photographs suggesting Daley's opponenet was having an illicit affair.
(d) It passed around Merriam's divorce papers in Catholic neighborhoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Democrat official who became a rival to Daley in his climb to the chairmanship of the Democratic Central Committee?

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

3. If Chicagoans were disagreeable when they raised complaints to the city, how did Richard Daley regard their complaint?

4. In what year did Richard Daley earn a position in the Cook County Democratic Central Committee?

5. What was the first unusual decision that Richard Daley made after he was elected mayor?

(see the answer key)

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