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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) He blamed federal restrictions against the sovereignty of cities to act on its problems.
(c) Daley played the innocent game and deferred complaints to the Department heads.
(d) He took personal responsibility noting that the appointments were his alone.

3. Who did Richard Daley convince to hold the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?
(a) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
(b) President Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) The Democrat National Committee.
(d) The Speaker of the House.

4. When did racial conflicts begin to become public in Chicago?
(a) During the early 1960s.
(b) During the Vietnam War.
(c) After Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947.
(d) During the late 1950s.

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

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

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

8. How did the attention news agencies gave to the April event set up what eventually occurred at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) Middle class and middle aged voters began supporting abuse against antiwar protesters.
(b) Both political parties recognized that they would have to become more sensitive to demands from civil rights activists.
(c) 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.
(d) McCarthy supporters were discounted as irrelevant and Eugene McCarthy quickly faded from the national stage of political influence.

9. 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.

10. What happened to segregation opponents who showed up at Richard Daley's house?
(a) Police forces arrived to arrest all that were involved.
(b) His neigbors pelted them with rocks.
(c) A firetruck was dispatched to scatter the gathering with its fire hoses.
(d) The gathering was joined by neighborhood supporters who considered segregation in Chicago unjust.

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

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

13. What happened to honest officials in the department that became troublesome for Richard Daley?
(a) Ward committeemen who refused to cheat lost their positions and discredited within the Cook County Democrat Party.
(b) Honest policemen are placed in desk jobs, passed over for promotions, and are isolated from important activities.
(c) Code enforcement personnel with the responsibility to provide housing access were beaten up and taken to the outskirts of Chicago.
(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.

14. What 1960 police department scandal caused great embarrassment for Richard Daley?
(a) The 1960 presidential election was found to be fraudulent.
(b) The murders of the activists were traced back to ward committeemen.
(c) A burglar reported that he was part of a burglary gang and the other members were policemen.
(d) Several officials were indicted for real estate contract violations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the public respond to Richard Daley's response to the outbreaks?

2. After controversy around the 1968 Democrat National Convention subsided, what was the condition of Richard Daley?

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

4. After Richard Daley put his scandal behind him, what two political victories did he achieve?

5. What did the public officials do in the 1970 scandal that compounded the problems for Richard Daley?

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