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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 that the coming political challenges would leave his influence subject to his successor.
(c) Suspicion among Chicago politicians fueled Daley's paranoia and he began making strange decisions.
(d) The results meant he could name his successor.

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

3. How did segregation aid the Democratic political machine in Chicago?
(a) If blacks were allowed to move into white neighborhoods, the whites would be enraged, withdraw its political support for the party in power, and the Machine would collapse.
(b) Segregated neighborhoods helped Mayor Daley know where to focus patronage.
(c) Segregated precincts helped the Cook County Democratic Central Committee know where to apply pressure.
(d) Segregation helped the Cook County Democratic Central Committee know which votes to count and which to hold back.

4. What is a campaign tactic that Richard Daley used against all of his election opponents?
(a) He would have public debates against the opponent and stack the audience in his favor.
(b) He campaigned door-to-door in precincts where he was polling behind his opponent.
(c) On election day he had public works projects on streets for polling sites in precincts where he feared losing.
(d) The Chicago Democrat Machine spread scandalous stories about the opponent that was either false or irrelevant, but Daley kept himself detatched from the stories.

5. How did Richard Daley respond to the outbreaks?
(a) He issued shoot to kill orders against arsonists and shoot to maim orders against looters.
(b) He ordered a restoration of Chief Wilson's policies in the African American neighborhoods.
(c) He had a city hall meeting with civil rights advocates to get their input for a new police chief.
(d) He restored water services to the fire hydrants in the neighborhood.

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

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

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

9. To what did Richard Daley credit his large majorities in African-American precincts?
(a) The involvement of Martin Luther King in civil rights controversies.
(b) Street repair projects.
(c) His decision to move into an African-American neighborhood to initiate desegregation efforts.
(d) His door-to-door campaigning.

10. What was the result of an effort to prove that Richard Daley's neighbors were intolerant of segregating neighborhoods based on color?
(a) A riot broke out in Mayor Daley's neighborhood and the African-American students were forced to move out after only a few days.
(b) Police opened up fire hoses and scattered the protestors.
(c) Business owners had the protestors arrested and took law suits against the leaders that organized the protests.
(d) The Chicago School Board ignored the requests and kept the students in their assigned schools.

11. What discrepancy was committed by public officials in 1970 that caused problems for the Daley Administration?
(a) A political opponent of Daley's reported that the trip to the Bahamas given as a gift to Daley was illegally funded with campaign donations.
(b) Police officers claimed they were defending themselves against an attack by the Black Panthers.
(c) A Chicago Tribune discovered that Richard Daley's birthday party thrown by City Hall employees was funded illegally with public money.
(d) Those who were critical of Daley's decisions pointed to his avoidance of the public as evidence he was becoming a recluse.

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

13. Why did Richard Daley claim he made the moves that he did with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?
(a) He said that he controlled City Hall and could do what he wanted with its money.
(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 had worked hard all his life and was interested in spending more time with family and friends.

14. Where did Daley choose to begin his urban renewal projects?
(a) West Halsted Street near the Chicago International Amphitheatre where the 1968 Democrat National Convention was eventually held.
(b) On the south side between Daley's Irish Catholic birthplace and an African-American neighborhood.
(c) An old Italian neighborhood known as the Valley.
(d) Along Waveland Avenue near Wrigley Field.

15. How did the public respond to Richard Daley's response to the outbreaks?
(a) He was applauded for recognizing the influence of civil rights advocates on his administration.
(b) He was distrusted for the remainder of his time as mayor.
(c) He was criticized to the point that he changed his orders to "minimum force."
(d) He was harshly criticized for being too closely involved in police department policy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Richard Daley's initial response to the 1960 police department scandal?

2. What tactic did segregation opponents use to point out the problem of segregation in Chicago?

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

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

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

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