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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Richard Daley when he became a precinct captain for a South Side ward?
(a) 21.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) 17.
2. Richard Daley and who else knew how many patronage jobs existed?
(a) The Mayor of Chicago.
(b) The Governor of Illinois.
(c) No one.
(d) The President of the United States.
3. What was among the influences for which Vito Marzullo was well known?
(a) Eliminated political enemies.
(b) Finding new political talent.
(c) "Voting the graveyard."
(d) Selecting judges.
4. What did Richard Daley persist in calling Chicago O'Hare International Airport?
(a) O'Hara.
(b) The Chicago Airstrip.
(c) Kennedy International.
(d) The Airfield.
5. What was the name of the lawyer who investigated the relationship between Daley and Marovitz?
(a) Johnny Cochran.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) William Kunstler.
(d) F. Lee Baily.
6. What was Richard Daley's unusual moral code?
(a) Do as I say, not as I do.
(b) Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Democrat.
(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.
7. When was the Introduction written?
(a) While Daley was convalescing in the hospital.
(b) One day after Richard Daley died.
(c) After Daley won his last election.
(d) After an interview of Daley's widow.
8. Who was the president who appointed Abraham Marovitz and what year was it done?
(a) Harry S. Truman, 1952.
(b) Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1967.
(c) John F. Kennedy, 1961.
(d) John F. Kennedy, 1963.
9. What was Richard Daley's family background?
(a) British gentry.
(b) Irish Catholic.
(c) German farm stock.
(d) Polish laborer.
10. What would happen to ward committeemen if they did not deliver votes on election day?
(a) The Democratic Party poured more campaign funds in his area for the next election.
(b) They lost their position with the Cook County Democratic Central Committee.
(c) He would end up, "sleeping with the fishes."
(d) Their precinct lost funding for projects he requested.
11. What was the most important rule Richard Daley learned from Joe McDonough?
(a) Keep a stiff upper lip.
(b) Don't get caught.
(c) Don't call us, we'll call you.
(d) Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.
12. What did Richard Daley do through the evenings of the 1920's after he was finished with his day job with the City?
(a) He wrote campaign speeches for Democrat dignitaries.
(b) He tended bar for several illegal speakeasies.
(c) He attended DePaul Law School.
(d) He drove a truck delivering coal to factories.
13. What was the reputation of the mayor who preceded Richard Daley?
(a) He was too easy on Republicans.
(b) He was a weak token.
(c) He was too easy on non-voting immigrants.
(d) He was too stingy with patronage jobs.
14. Upon what has Richard Daley's quick rise in political influence been credited?
(a) His membership in a club named the Hamburgs that spawned a number of successful Chicago politicians.
(b) His unique skill as an orator to persuade even the most seasoned officeholder to take action.
(c) His quiet and earnest work to help all voters get to the polls.
(d) His ability to see and negotiate his way through conflict.
15. In earlier times how did ward committeemen win influence over immigrants?
(a) They helped them find homes and jobs.
(b) They helped them fill out papers and figure out their taxes and licenses.
(c) They helped them get the forms that helped to keep them in the country.
(d) They dispatched henchmen to threaten them if they were not compliant.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what or whom did Royko compare Richard Daley's character?
2. What are two titles given to ward committeemen?
3. In what year did Richard Daley win the Chairmanship of the Cook County Democratic Party?
4. In what year did Richard Daley earn a position in the Cook County Democratic Central Committee?
5. What did Richard Daley present himself as in his first campaign for Mayor?
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