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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Richard Daley handle complaints against his department heads?
(a) Daley played the innocent game and deferred complaints to the Department heads.
(b) He took personal responsibility noting that the appointments were his alone.
(c) He blamed federal restrictions against the sovereignty of cities to act on its problems.
(d) He ignored the complaints with the knowledge that the machine would take care of all problems.

2. What race-related issue did Richard Daley face during his early second term?
(a) Segregated businesses.
(b) Segregated schools.
(c) African-American discontent with segregated neighborhoods.
(d) Segregated public facilities.

3. What resulted from the high ranking personnel change that came to Daley at the beginning of his fourth term?
(a) Police abuse returned to the black neighborhoods.
(b) Daley lost his control of the Italian neighborhoods and they started voting Republican.
(c) Daley was sucked into a legal controversy that marred his remaining years as mayor.
(d) Daley had a direct connection to federal funding that he used to his political advantage.

4. At what point during the 1968 Democratic National Convention did protesters and security forces clash?
(a) Opening night of the convention.
(b) Throughout the summer weeks before the convention.
(c) On Wednesday before the presidential nominations were made.
(d) The weekend before the start of the convention.

5. Besides protesters, who else did security forces target for harassment during the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) Spectators of the events.
(b) Sidewalk merchants.
(c) News reporters.
(d) Organizers who were not at the protest sites.

6. What police action against a public gathering became a precursor to the Democratic National Convention?
(a) Peace marchers ignored police orders to disperse and were beaten, maced, and arrested.
(b) Dr. King's assassination caused discontent within African-American delegations to the Convention.
(c) Supporters of Senator Kennedy refused to pledge their support to any other candidate.
(d) McCarthy's antiwar supporters pledged to disrupt the convention if McCarthy was not nominated.

7. How did the press handle the April event?
(a) The national news agencies began putting increased attention on African-American demands after Dr. King's assassination.
(b) Mid-Western news agencies became weary of antiwar protestors and began connecting them with Communist front groups.
(c) Not many reporters were assigned to the peace march, so it was overlooked.
(d) McCarthy supporters were characterized as a fringe, single issue caucus with no real political influence.

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

9. 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.

10. How did Richard Daley treat department heads who did not perform well?
(a) Daley defended and kept them in until he was ready to replace them.
(b) He ignored their performance hoping the press would not notice.
(c) He publicly took control of the departments and took credit for improvements.
(d) He quietly found replacements and removed them from office.

11. Who was Richard Daley's opponent during his fourth run for Mayor?
(a) John Warner.
(b) Orlando Wilson.
(c) Ben Adamowski.
(d) Robert Merriam.

12. In what year did Richard Daley begin his fifth term?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1972.

13. What caused an outbreak of fires and looting on Chicago's West Side African-American neighborhoods during Richard Daley's fourth term?
(a) The assassination of Martin Luther King.
(b) The retirement of Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(c) Increased police abuse after the retirement of Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(d) Daley ordering water to be cut off from fire hydrants in the area.

14. What was Richard Daley's initial response to the 1960 police department scandal?
(a) He began drinking heavily.
(b) He made public attacks against people investigating the charges.
(c) He stonewalled all investigations.
(d) He sequestered himself in his home out of shame.

15. What did Richard Daley actually do with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?
(a) He did not follow up on his promises to reform the Police Department after the deaths of the Black Panthers.
(b) He took money from City Hall to pay back the Cook County Democratic Party for the Bahamas trip expenses.
(c) The political advisor was actually a close friend from the Democratic Central Committee and they just spent an increasing amount of time together.
(d) He took money out of the Cook County Democratic Party campaign fund to pay back City Hall for the party expenses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Richard Daley replace at the beginning of his fourth term?

2. What did the response of contenders for the 1972 Democrat Presidential Nomination signify to Richard Daley?

3. What event took place in Chicago during April that foretold conflict at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?

4. What did the election results for Richard Daley's fifth term mean for his influence over Chicago politics?

5. Where did Daley choose to begin his urban renewal projects?

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