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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made the Cook County Democratic Central Committee so powerful?
(a) It set Democratic Party policy in Chicago and Cook County.
(b) It was led by Adalai Stevenson.
(c) It was directed from Washington, D.C.
(d) It had direct links to Harry Truman.

2. What motivated racial violence to intensify?
(a) The bodies of three civil rights volunteers were found at a construction site on the outskirts of Chicago.
(b) Martin Luther King was assassinated.
(c) The hotel for the Los Angeles Dodgers denied rooms to the African-American members of the team.
(d) A firetruck with all white fireman ran over a black woman and killed her.

3. Daley did not personally attack his opponent, but what was one of the things the Democratic Machine did during the election?
(a) It passed around photographs suggesting Daley's opponenet was having an illicit affair.
(b) It stole yard signs of Daley's opponent.
(c) It passed around Merriam's divorce papers in Catholic neighborhoods.
(d) It doctored documents that showed Daley's opponent stole public money for his business.

4. How did segregation aid the Democratic political machine in Chicago?
(a) Segregated neighborhoods helped Mayor Daley know where to focus patronage.
(b) Segregated precincts helped the Cook County Democratic Central Committee know where to apply pressure.
(c) If blacks were allowed to move into white neighborhoods, the whites would be enraged, withdraw its political support for the party in power, and the Machine would collapse.
(d) Segregation helped the Cook County Democratic Central Committee know which votes to count and which to hold back.

5. What was Richard Daley's unusual moral code?
(a) Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Democrat.
(b) Do as I say, not as I do.
(c) I don't care what you do as long as I don't catch you doing it.
(d) Thou shalt not steal but though shalt not blow the whistle on anybody who does.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Richard Daley provide these organizations to maintain their support?

2. What would happen to ward committeemen if they did not deliver votes on election day?

3. What were the qualifications that a ward committeeman had to prove to get appointed to the head of a city department?

4. What was the first unusual decision that Richard Daley made after he was elected mayor?

5. What was the first stop that Richard Daley made everyday?

(see the answer key)

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