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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many protesters arrived in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) 500.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. What public office traditionally rose through the Chicago Democratic political system?
(a) U.S. Senator.
(b) Chief of Police.
(c) Judge.
(d) City Manager.

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

4. 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 Daley took his only defense stand against Marovitz.
(d) They met when Marovitz was a young prosecutor and Daley was a clerk in the City Council.

5. What was the first unusual decision that Richard Daley made after he was elected mayor?
(a) He had the door removed from his office to represent he would have an open administration.
(b) He moved the mayor's office to the Chicago Democrat headquarters.
(c) He moved to a home next door to City Hall.
(d) He maintained the chairmanship of the party while serving as mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to segregation opponents who showed up at Richard Daley's house?

2. How was Richard Daley's initial urban renewal effort accepted by those who who used the areas?

3. By what kind of margin did Richard Daley win the election to his fifth term?

4. Who did Richard Daley run as Democrat candidate for Cook County Sheriff in 1971?

5. Upon what has Richard Daley's quick rise in political influence been credited?

(see the answer key)

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