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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How widely regarded was Richard Daley's victory for his fifth term regarded?
(a) All the way to Washington, D.C.
(b) Within the Cook County Democrat Party.
(c) Throughout the state of Illinois.
(d) Very few people noticed.

2. 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) He took money out of the Cook County Democratic Party campaign fund to pay back City Hall for the party expenses.
(c) He did not follow up on his promises to reform the Police Department after the deaths of the Black Panthers.
(d) The political advisor was actually a close friend from the Democratic Central Committee and they just spent an increasing amount of time together.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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 criticized to the point that he changed his orders to "minimum force."
(c) He was harshly criticized for being too closely involved in police department policy.
(d) He was distrusted for the remainder of his time as mayor.

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

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

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

10. How did most Chicagoans consider the corruption within the department?
(a) An increasing number of voters attempted to register as Republican.
(b) They realized that selling and buying property in Chicago was more costly than it was worth, so the market dried up.
(c) A natural part of Chicago.
(d) The became accustomed to ethnic neighborhoods to be the consequence of human nature.

11. How did Richard Daley diffuse the 1970 scandal involving the public officials?
(a) He hired a political adviser who guided him in responding to claims he was losing his mental edge.
(b) Daley claimed to repay the Cook County Democratic campaign funds.
(c) Daley claimed to repay the public funds from his bank account.
(d) Daley transfered a few police commanders and vowed to reform the department.

12. 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) Martin Luther King was assassinated.
(d) The hotel for the Los Angeles Dodgers denied rooms to the African-American members of the team.

13. What happened on Richard Daley's 68th birthday?
(a) The Democratic Central Committee gave Daley and his wife a trip to the Bahamas.
(b) He spent a quiet evening in seclusion with his family.
(c) City employees gave Daley a big party that was visited by high-ranking Democrats from across the country.
(d) A grand jury published a report that indicted police for abuse during a raid on a West Side residence where two Black Panther leaders were killed.

14. Who did Richard Daley appoint to take care of the 1960 police department scandal?
(a) William Kunstler, a lawyer who was a persistent critic of Chicago city government.
(b) Adalai Stevenson, who had a highly regarded reputation for integrity in Illinois.
(c) Jesse Jackson, who had been working very closely with Martin Luther King on civil rights issues.
(d) Orlando Wilson, the nation's brilliant and foremost law enforcement expert and corrupt-free head of the University of California's criminology department.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did segregation aid the Democratic political machine in Chicago?

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

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

4. At what point during the 1968 Democratic National Convention did protesters and security forces clash?

5. How did Richard Daley's selection for the 1970 Cook County Sheriff's race show in the election?

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