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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are patronage jobs?
(a) Service jobs that the government must provide.
(b) Public jobs that are issued through political connections.
(c) Make-work jobs that have no real function.
(d) The name for jobs that have no other definition.

2. What personal relationship was Richard Daley maintaining that gave him the incentive to do well when he was working for Joe McDonough in the Cook County Treasurer's Office?
(a) He served as liaison between Al Capone and his syndicate while he was in prison.
(b) He started doing business with Joe Kennedy.
(c) He began dating his future wife, Eleanor.
(d) He began working with a young politician named Adalai Stevenson.

3. What did Richard Daley do through the evenings of the 1920's after he was finished with his day job with the City?
(a) He tended bar for several illegal speakeasies.
(b) He attended DePaul Law School.
(c) He wrote campaign speeches for Democrat dignitaries.
(d) He drove a truck delivering coal to factories.

4. What was in the front and back of Richard Daley's house?
(a) Chicago police officers.
(b) Roman Catholic statuary.
(c) A spacious lawn.
(d) Fountains.

5. What was the result of Richard Daley's hard work with the Democratic Central Committee?
(a) Chicago became the model of political efficiency.
(b) Crime was reduced dramatically.
(c) Street repairs for Chicago received sufficient funding.
(d) Influence of Republicans was almost eliminated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Richard Daley do if an ex-convict applied for a patronage job?

2. Where did Daley choose to begin his urban renewal projects?

3. In Chicago City Hall, Richard Daley was known by all of the following except:

4. If Chicagoans were disagreeable when they raised complaints to the city, how did Richard Daley regard their complaint?

5. Where did the Introduction first appear?

(see the answer key)

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