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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of speaking style did Daley have?
(a) Smooth, soothing, and inspiring.
(b) Coarse, blunt, and direct.
(c) Amusing, friendly, and relaxing.
(d) Rapid, pointed, and evasive.

2. What is a campaign tactic that Richard Daley used against all of his election opponents?
(a) He campaigned door-to-door in precincts where he was polling behind his opponent.
(b) On election day he had public works projects on streets for polling sites in precincts where he feared losing.
(c) He would have public debates against the opponent and stack the audience in his favor.
(d) The Chicago Democrat Machine spread scandalous stories about the opponent that was either false or irrelevant, but Daley kept himself detatched from the stories.

3. What became the most consuming controversy during Richard Daley's first two terms as mayor?
(a) Corruption in the police department.
(b) Segregation throughout the city's ethnic neighbor hoods.
(c) City planners using their positions to profit from real estate development.
(d) Ward committeemen turning in doctored election returns.

4. Where did the Introduction first appear?
(a) New York Times.
(b) Chicago Sun-Times.
(c) Chicago Herald.
(d) Chicago Tribune.

5. Where did Daley choose to begin his urban renewal projects?
(a) Along Waveland Avenue near Wrigley Field.
(b) West Halsted Street near the Chicago International Amphitheatre where the 1968 Democrat National Convention was eventually held.
(c) An old Italian neighborhood known as the Valley.
(d) On the south side between Daley's Irish Catholic birthplace and an African-American neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the attention news agencies gave to the April event set up what eventually occurred at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?

2. Why did Royko consider Richard Daley to be a believable father figure to Chicagoans?

3. Into what type of neighborhood was Richard Daley born?

4. What made the Cook County Democratic Central Committee so powerful?

5. What skills did Richard Daley learn in the Christian Brothers technical school?

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