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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Richard Daley do if an ex-convict applied for a patronage job?
(a) Sent them a polite form letter telling them their quaifications will be considered.
(b) Verified with their sponsor that they are now clean.
(c) Ignore their presence on the list.
(d) Checked to make sure that the police know where they are.

2. What was the result of an effort to prove that Richard Daley's neighbors were intolerant of segregating neighborhoods based on color?
(a) Police opened up fire hoses and scattered the protestors.
(b) The Chicago School Board ignored the requests and kept the students in their assigned schools.
(c) A riot broke out in Mayor Daley's neighborhood and the African-American students were forced to move out after only a few days.
(d) Business owners had the protestors arrested and took law suits against the leaders that organized the protests.

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

4. After the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, how many people were considered to be more powerful than Richard Daley?
(a) Just President Kennedy.
(b) President Kennedy, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
(c) President Kennedy, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) President Kennedy and Sam Rayburn.

5. Why did a particular important figure frustrate Richard Daley during the period of protests against segregated neighborhoods?
(a) Police Chief Wilson frustrated Daley because he treated African-American protestors with a light touch, and per their agreement Wilson was the one official Daley could not boss around.
(b) William Kunstler frustrated Daley because he was continually threatening legal action on the injustices Dr. King publicized.
(c) President Kennedy frustrated Daley because he did little to offer political support during the turmoil.
(d) Martin Luther King frustrated Daley because he had no control over Dr. King when he caused bad publicity with his protests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would ward committeemen do if they could not win election to an additional public office?

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

3. Why did Richard Daley visit the Democrat Party headquarters after city council meetings?

4. What was Richard Daley's initial response to the 1960 police department scandal?

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

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