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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic for Chapter II?
(a) Chicago and organized crime.
(b) Chicago models apartied.
(c) Richard Daley's rough life.
(d) Richard Daley comes of age.

2. What did people have to do to stay safe in Chicago while Richard Daley was growing up?
(a) Show courtesy to women and children.
(b) Stay in their own neighborhood with their own kind.
(c) Speak softly and carry a big stick.
(d) Wear safety helmets.

3. What was Richard Daley's unusual moral code?
(a) Do as I say, not as I do.
(b) Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Democrat.
(c) I don't care what you do as long as I don't catch you doing it.
(d) Thou shalt not steal but though shalt not blow the whistle on anybody who does.

4. How did Richard Daley regard suggestions from Independent members of the City Council?
(a) He would fly into a purple rage and publicly humilate those who proposed them.
(b) He sent them to a subcomittee where they eventually die.
(c) He would contemplete them carefully upon their merits.
(d) He would send his Chief of Staff to the council member to coerce his/her silence.

5. 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 when Marovitz was prosecuting one of Daley's gangster friends.
(c) They met at the wedding of Daley and his wife.
(d) They met when Daley took his only defense stand against Marovitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joe McDonough was elected to County Treasurer, what happened to Richard Daley?

2. According to Royko, What will be the most-remembered political legacy of Richard Daley?

3. In what year did Richard Daley win the Chairmanship of the Cook County Democratic Party?

4. What defined the geographic areas of Chicago?

5. To what or whom did Royko compare Richard Daley's character?

(see the answer key)

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