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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Richard Daley become most upset during the time of growing racial conflict?
(a) Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(b) Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King.
(c) President Kennedy.
(d) Civil Rights lawyer William Kunstler.

2. What event took place in Chicago during April that foretold conflict at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?
(a) Eugene McCarthy's primary victories invigorated the antiwar movement.
(b) Senator Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.
(c) Martin Luther King was assassinated.
(d) A large peace march was held in Chicago in the Loop area.

3. Who was the Republican candidate opposing Richard Daley in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?
(a) Vito Marzullo.
(b) Alderman Robert Merriam.
(c) Martin Kennelly.
(d) Dan Rostenkowski.

4. Richard Daley became connected with a judge named Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. How did they meet?
(a) They met when Marovitz was a young prosecutor and Daley was a clerk in the City Council.
(b) They met at the wedding of Daley and his wife.
(c) They met when Daley took his only defense stand against Marovitz.
(d) They met when Marovitz was prosecuting one of Daley's gangster friends.

5. To what did Richard Daley credit his large majorities in African-American precincts?
(a) His door-to-door campaigning.
(b) His decision to move into an African-American neighborhood to initiate desegregation efforts.
(c) The involvement of Martin Luther King in civil rights controversies.
(d) Street repair projects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was among the promises that Daley made during the campaign?

2. How many protesters arrived in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention?

3. What resulted from the high ranking personnel change that came to Daley at the beginning of his fourth term?

4. When did racial conflicts begin to become public in Chicago?

5. Who was the last elected Chicago Mayor before Richard Daley?

(see the answer key)

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