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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the public officials do in the 1970 scandal that compounded the problems for Richard Daley?
(a) Daley's political opponent was hospitalized after a beating by precinct workers.
(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) 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.

2. 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.

3. With whom did Richard Daley become most upset during the time of growing racial conflict?
(a) Civil Rights lawyer William Kunstler.
(b) Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King.
(c) President Kennedy.
(d) Police Chief Orlando Wilson.

4. 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) Increased police abuse after the retirement of Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(c) The retirement of Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(d) Daley ordering water to be cut off from fire hydrants in the area.

5. 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) The Chicago School Board ignored the requests and kept the students in their assigned schools.
(d) Business owners had the protestors arrested and took law suits against the leaders that organized the protests.

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

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

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

9. What was the year of the election for Richard Daley's fourth term?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1965.

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

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

12. By what kind of margin did Richard Daley win the election to his fifth term?
(a) The election was cancelled as his opponent died in a mysterious auto accident a week before the election.
(b) The closest margin of his career.
(c) One of the largest margins in his career.
(d) He ran unopposed.

13. How did Richard Daley respond to growing tensions in the weeks leading up to the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) He became a mediator between the various interest groups and the Democratic National Committee.
(b) He planned a massive show of force and denied public gathering permits to antiwar groups.
(c) He began conferring with President Johnson for advice on how to handle the situation.
(d) He did not consider any of the threats to be serious and ignored them.

14. How did Richard Daley address the corruption within the city government?
(a) He tried to blow the bad news off the front pages with big, circus-like events.
(b) He hired a P.R. firm to put a positive spin on the controversies.
(c) He personally took charge and fired or incarcerated offenders.
(d) He had meetings with corrupt officials and reminded them of his basic creed, "Don't get caught."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did certain politicians consider Richard Daley's influence in 1971?

2. Why did a particular important figure frustrate Richard Daley during the period of protests against segregated neighborhoods?

3. How did Richard Daley diffuse the 1970 scandal involving the public officials?

4. What motivated racial violence to intensify?

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

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