View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the election results for Richard Daley's fifth term mean for influence over the future of Chicago politics?
(a) Growing apathy began to overshadow all the events of his early career.
(b) The results meant he could name his successor.
(c) Suspicion among Chicago politicians fueled Daley's paranoia and he began making strange decisions.
(d) The results meant that the coming political challenges would leave his influence subject to his successor.

2. Who were among the leaders for the 1972 Democrat nomination for president in 1971?
(a) Lydon Johnson, Adalai Stevenson III, Jimmy Carter.
(b) Bill Clinton, John Foster Dulles, Richard Nixon.
(c) George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Edmund Muskie.
(d) Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Sargent Shriver.

3. How did Richard Daley diffuse the 1970 scandal involving the public officials?
(a) Daley claimed to repay the public funds from his bank account.
(b) Daley claimed to repay the Cook County Democratic campaign funds.
(c) He hired a political adviser who guided him in responding to claims he was losing his mental edge.
(d) Daley transfered a few police commanders and vowed to reform the department.

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) Both political parties recognized that they would have to become more sensitive to demands from civil rights activists.
(c) McCarthy supporters were discounted as irrelevant and Eugene McCarthy quickly faded from the national stage of political influence.
(d) Middle class and middle aged voters began supporting abuse against antiwar protesters.

5. What made this candidate for Cook County Sheriff an attractive choice for the election?
(a) Marzullo is assured of delivering the Itallian vote.
(b) Elrod was hospitalized after having allegedly been injured by a Weatherman activist.
(c) Adamowski is considered to be independent of Daley's influence.
(d) Chicagoans considered Orlando Wilson an effective law enforcement officer.

6. What tactic did segregation opponents use to point out the problem of segregation in Chicago?
(a) African-American parents began enrolling their children in white schools near their homes.
(b) They rented a flat in Richard Daley's neighborhood and put up two African-American college students in the residence.
(c) They organized a sit-in of African-American activists at segregated public venues.
(d) African-American activists ignorned "Whites Only" signs on businesses and demanded service from the proprietors.

7. Who did Richard Daley run as Democrat candidate for Cook County Sheriff in 1971?
(a) Vito Marzullo.
(b) Ben Adamowski.
(c) Richard Elrod.
(d) Former Police Chief Orlando Wilson.

8. What happened to Richard Daley's popularity in Chicago after the turmoil of the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) He became a negative influence to Democrats seeking high political office.
(b) Chicagoans became ashamed of Daley's rough treatment and began abandoning his leadership.
(c) His popularity grew as he was seen as opposing influences considered to be threats to the middle class.
(d) The events around the 1968 convention had no lasting influence as Americans soon focused on the presidential campaign.

9. What were the issues that Richard Daley's opponent raised during the election before his fourth term?
(a) The increasing taxes on property and regulations against businesses.
(b) Inadequate housing and bans against African-Americans in Chicago's labor unions.
(c) Daley's harsh law enforcement tactics and racial tension.
(d) Increasing federal intrusion and insufficient education funding.

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

11. How did Richard Daley respond to growing tensions in the weeks leading up to the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) He planned a massive show of force and denied public gathering permits to antiwar groups.
(b) He began conferring with President Johnson for advice on how to handle the situation.
(c) He became a mediator between the various interest groups and the Democratic National Committee.
(d) He did not consider any of the threats to be serious and ignored them.

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

13. How did Richard Daley address the corruption within the city government?
(a) He tried to blow the bad news off the front pages with big, circus-like events.
(b) He hired a P.R. firm to put a positive spin on the controversies.
(c) He had meetings with corrupt officials and reminded them of his basic creed, "Don't get caught."
(d) He personally took charge and fired or incarcerated offenders.

14. 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 closest margin of his career.
(c) The election was cancelled as his opponent died in a mysterious auto accident a week before the election.
(d) He ran unopposed.

15. How did Richard Daley's selection for the 1970 Cook County Sheriff's race show in the election?
(a) Elrod won easily.
(b) Adamowski disappeared mysteriously before the election.
(c) Marzullo ran a poor race and was narrowly defeated.
(d) Wilson decided to withdraw before the election was held.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of an effort to prove that Richard Daley's neighbors were intolerant of segregating neighborhoods based on color?

2. Who was Richard Daley's opponent during his fourth run for Mayor?

3. What police action against a public gathering became a precursor to the Democratic National Convention?

4. Why did Richard Daley claim he made the moves that he did with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?

5. How large and what was the make up of the security detail for the 1968 Democratic National convention?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,097 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample