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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were many of the precinct committee positions earned through the years?
(a) Through hard work or devotion.
(b) Through paying for favors or graft.
(c) Through winning public support for a cause or virtue.
(d) Through family connections or nepotism.

2. What were the campaign issues pressed by the Republican candidate in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?
(a) Inconsistent garbage removal and government waste.
(b) Corruption in the Police Department and the Democratic Machine.
(c) Equal rights and desegregation.
(d) School funding and violent crime.

3. How did ward committeemen use their influence to encourage participation in elections?
(a) He would tell them, "Now that you are American it is you civic duty to vote."
(b) He would tell them, "Voting makes you as powerful as the people in elected office."
(c) He would tell them, "Voting helps you protect the freedoms for which you left your homeland."
(d) He would tell them, "If you don't vote, you might lose your public housing."

4. Why did Royko consider Richard Daley to be a believable father figure to Chicagoans?
(a) He frequently attended weddings and gave away the bride.
(b) He looked old and bald like a father.
(c) He liked sitting in a rocker during public meetings.
(d) He was like many fathers who worked long hours and said what he meant.

5. What supplemental role did the Chicago Police Department perform for Richard Daley?
(a) It would accomany him to important public meetings.
(b) It acted as his spy division.
(c) It made itself available for security to the Democrat Party.
(d) It provided security for visiting dignitaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his earlier years as Chicago Mayor, Richard Daley walked down Michigan Avenue to greet people. Why did he stop the practice?

2. What was Richard Daley's family background?

3. What was Richard Daley able to accomplish with the additional funding that the Republican Governor of Illinois granted to Chicago in 1956?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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