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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would happen to ward committeemen if they did not deliver votes on election day?
(a) The Democratic Party poured more campaign funds in his area for the next election.
(b) They lost their position with the Cook County Democratic Central Committee.
(c) He would end up, "sleeping with the fishes."
(d) Their precinct lost funding for projects he requested.
2. What became the most consuming controversy during Richard Daley's first two terms as mayor?
(a) Ward committeemen turning in doctored election returns.
(b) Corruption in the police department.
(c) City planners using their positions to profit from real estate development.
(d) Segregation throughout the city's ethnic neighbor hoods.
3. Why did a particular important figure frustrate Richard Daley during the period of protests against segregated neighborhoods?
(a) President Kennedy frustrated Daley because he did little to offer political support during the turmoil.
(b) William Kunstler frustrated Daley because he was continually threatening legal action on the injustices Dr. King publicized.
(c) 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.
(d) Martin Luther King frustrated Daley because he had no control over Dr. King when he caused bad publicity with his protests.
4. What are two titles given to ward committeemen?
(a) "Our beloved leader" and "the clout."
(b) "The clout", and "Mr. Big."
(c) "Our beloved leader", and "the boss."
(d) "The chosen one" and "the fair haired boy."
5. What finally forced Richard Daley to hear the demands of Martin Luther King?
(a) The arrest of Dr. King on the false charges threatened to bring down the Democrat Machine if Daley did not act.
(b) Daley was impressed with Dr. King's vision from the speech.
(c) White voters became angry with the turmoil in their neighborhoods.
(d) Daley realized that he had to act to assuage the anger in segregated neighborhoods after Dr. King's assassination.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Richard Daley leave behind after his death?
2. What tactic did segregation opponents use to point out the problem of segregation in Chicago?
3. What are patronage jobs?
4. Why did Royko suggest that immigrants were tolerant of Richard Daley's abuses of power?
5. How were the various Chicago neighborhoods sustained economically?
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