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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Richard Daley leave behind after his death?
(a) A "gouging, grabbing, tripping" fight for his power.
(b) A modest home on the southside of Chicago.
(c) A wife and three sons.
(d) Huge public deficits that are still being paid off.

2. According to Royko, What will be the most-remembered political legacy of Richard Daley?
(a) That he was kind and honest.
(b) That he presided over successful public works.
(c) That he was a political brawler.
(d) That he was upright and consistent.

3. When Joe McDonough was elected to County Treasurer, what happened to Richard Daley?
(a) The two split and Daley continued to pursue his career in City Hall.
(b) Daley was left in Chicago City Hall where he eventually became a rival to McDonough.
(c) McDonough kept Daley in his office as an aide.
(d) Daley decided to set his own course and run for state senate.

4. Who was the Democrat official who became a rival to Daley in his climb to the chairmanship of the Democratic Central Committee?
(a) Benjamin Adamowski.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Clarence Wager.
(d) Paul Douglas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between the precinct captain and the ward committeeman in the Cook County Democratic Party?

2. What talent of Richard Daley's earned him praise from Democrats around the country?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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