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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who among the front runners for the 1972 Democrat presidential nomination called Richard Daley on his victory for his fifth term?
(a) According to Daley, "All of them."
(b) According to The Minneapolis Star, "Hubert Humphrey."
(c) According to The Chicago Tribune, "Edmund Muskie."
(d) According to the Washington Post, "Richard Nixon."

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

3. 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) African-American activists ignorned "Whites Only" signs on businesses and demanded service from the proprietors.
(c) They rented a flat in Richard Daley's neighborhood and put up two African-American college students in the residence.
(d) They organized a sit-in of African-American activists at segregated public venues.

4. After the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, how many people were considered to be more powerful than Richard Daley?
(a) President Kennedy, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
(b) President Kennedy, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Just President Kennedy.
(d) President Kennedy and Sam Rayburn.

5. How was a police action in April of 1968 characterized by observers?
(a) The demands of African-American delegates are considered seriously by the Democrat Convention Platform Committee.
(b) It is called a police riot.
(c) The unattached Kennedy delegates inspire political activists of all types to go to Chicago to demonstrate.
(d) The threats of McCarthy supporters is discounted as an easily handled threat.

6. What did the response of contenders for the 1972 Democrat Presidential Nomination signify to Richard Daley?
(a) His power was alive and well.
(b) His power was appreciated by Republicans.
(c) His power was limited to Chicago.
(d) His power had a regional influence.

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

8. What happened to honest officials in the department that became troublesome for Richard Daley?
(a) Honest policemen are placed in desk jobs, passed over for promotions, and are isolated from important activities.
(b) Code enforcement personnel with the responsibility to provide housing access were beaten up and taken to the outskirts of Chicago.
(c) Ward committeemen who refused to cheat lost their positions and discredited within the Cook County Democrat Party.
(d) Code enforcement and real estate agents who tried to blow the whistle had false information on their finances published and were chased out of their departments or businesses.

9. What were the results of the election leading to Richard Daley's fourth term?
(a) Daley won with 73 percent of the vote.
(b) His opponent died in a mysterious auto accident two days before the election.
(c) Daley won a narrow victory.
(d) Daley was forced to dispatch more street repair projects than he ever had.

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

11. What did Martin Luther King do when Mayor Daley's actions did not satisfactorily address the problems of segregation?
(a) Dr. King left for Memphis, Tennessee where he was assassinated.
(b) Dr. King went to Washington, D.C. and delivered his "I have a dream" speech.
(c) Dr. King was arrested by Chicago police on a voter fraud charge.
(d) Dr. King began staging protest marches in white neighborhoods.

12. 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.

13. 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 became publicly indignant over the charges which just fueled the speculation that he was losing control of his faculties.
(c) The Daley administration tried to stone wall the investigation into illegal use of public money.
(d) Daley's political opponent was hospitalized after a beating by precinct workers.

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

15. How did segregation aid the Democratic political machine in Chicago?
(a) Segregated neighborhoods helped Mayor Daley know where to focus patronage.
(b) Segregated precincts helped the Cook County Democratic Central Committee know where to apply pressure.
(c) 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.
(d) Segregation helped the Cook County Democratic Central Committee know which votes to count and which to hold back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the issues that Richard Daley's opponent raised during the election before his fourth term?

2. To what did Richard Daley credit his large majorities in African-American precincts?

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

4. How deeply institutionalized was segregation in Chicago's city planning departments?

5. What event led to the biggest scandal of Richard Daley's second term as mayor?

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