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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Richard Daley provide these organizations to maintain their support?
(a) He used public revenues to assure that the Chicago Public Schools System was fully funded and materials were easily made available.
(b) He influenced bowling alleys throughout Chicago to provide free league nights.
(c) He paid at the top of the scale in union wages and provided an unending stream of massive public works projects requiring union workers.
(d) He worked to get government grants to provide law enforcement officials with the most up-to-date weaponry and forensic equipment.

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

3. By what kind of margin did Richard Daley win the election to his fifth term?
(a) One of the largest margins in his career.
(b) The election was cancelled as his opponent died in a mysterious auto accident a week before the election.
(c) The closest margin of his career.
(d) He ran unopposed.

4. How did the attention news agencies gave to the April event set up what eventually occurred at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) The lack of public attention to police abuse of peace marchers allowed Richard Daley to believe that the public was not concerned with their treatment.
(b) Middle class and middle aged voters began supporting abuse against antiwar protesters.
(c) Both political parties recognized that they would have to become more sensitive to demands from civil rights activists.
(d) McCarthy supporters were discounted as irrelevant and Eugene McCarthy quickly faded from the national stage of political influence.

5. In what year did Richard Daley win the Chairmanship of the Cook County Democratic Party?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organizations gave Richard Daley his most loyal support?

2. What past time of Joe McDonough helped Richard Daley earn political status and why?

3. Daley did not personally attack his opponent, but what was one of the things the Democratic Machine did during the election?

4. Why did Richard Daley earn a nickname while he was using public funding for various public works projects?

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

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