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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Richard Daley put his scandal behind him, what two political victories did he achieve?
(a) He overwelmingly won a third term as mayor and got Vito Marzullo appointed to the federal court.
(b) He helped to elect Dan Rostenkowski to congress and defeated Robert Merriam in a second election.
(c) He helped to name Lyndon B. Johnson as John F. Kennedy's running mate and had his urban renewal plans endorsed by Martin Luther King.
(d) He helped to elect John F. Kennedy to the presidency and defeated his rival Ben Adamowski.

2. How did certain politicians consider Richard Daley's influence in 1971?
(a) Since he faced no competition he was not considered a serious political influence.
(b) Politicians in Illinois saw his influence on the wane.
(c) National politicians still considered him someone who could produce votes.
(d) The bizarre events preceeding the 1971 elections added to his history of harsh treatment of his opponenets.

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

4. Why did Richard Daley claim he made the moves that he did with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?
(a) He said that he had worked hard all his life and was interested in spending more time with family and friends.
(b) He believed that Chicago was not ready for reform.
(c) He said that he controlled the Cook County Democrat Party and could do what he wanted with its money.
(d) He said that he controlled City Hall and could do what he wanted with its money.

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

6. What did Richard Daley actually do with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?
(a) He took money out of the Cook County Democratic Party campaign fund to pay back City Hall for the party expenses.
(b) He did not follow up on his promises to reform the Police Department after the deaths of the Black Panthers.
(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 from City Hall to pay back the Cook County Democratic Party for the Bahamas trip expenses.

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

8. What finally forced Richard Daley to hear the demands of Martin Luther King?
(a) White voters became angry with the turmoil in their neighborhoods.
(b) Daley realized that he had to act to assuage the anger in segregated neighborhoods after Dr. King's assassination.
(c) The arrest of Dr. King on the false charges threatened to bring down the Democrat Machine if Daley did not act.
(d) Daley was impressed with Dr. King's vision from the speech.

9. What became the most consuming controversy during Richard Daley's first two terms as mayor?
(a) Ward committeemen turning in doctored election returns.
(b) Segregation throughout the city's ethnic neighbor hoods.
(c) Corruption in the police department.
(d) City planners using their positions to profit from real estate development.

10. 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.

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

12. What did the public officials do in the 1970 scandal that compounded the problems for Richard Daley?
(a) The grand jury discovered that the officers involved in the killing of the Black Panthers fired more than 80 shots, but only one bullet could be traced to the victims guns.
(b) Daley's political opponent was hospitalized after a beating by precinct workers.
(c) Daley became publicly indignant over the charges which just fueled the speculation that he was losing control of his faculties.
(d) The Daley administration tried to stone wall the investigation into illegal use of public money.

13. What motivated racial violence to intensify?
(a) A firetruck with all white fireman ran over a black woman and killed her.
(b) Martin Luther King was assassinated.
(c) The bodies of three civil rights volunteers were found at a construction site on the outskirts of Chicago.
(d) The hotel for the Los Angeles Dodgers denied rooms to the African-American members of the team.

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

15. How was Richard Daley's initial urban renewal effort accepted by those who who used the areas?
(a) Residents in the Valley staged an uprising.
(b) Both the Irish and African American residents were suspicious at first but came to appreciate the efforts to improve and open their neighborhoods.
(c) Cubs fans were mildly inconvenienced, but hoped the changes would bring a World Series to the Friendly Confines.
(d) The indigents who frequented Halsted Street alleys were chased off and eventually resettled in Gary, Indiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Richard Daley appoint to take care of the 1960 police department scandal?

2. How was a police action in April of 1968 characterized by observers?

3. When did racial conflicts begin to become public in Chicago?

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

5. What was Richard Daley's response after a commission recommended that the police should treat blacks the same as whites?

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