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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are patronage jobs?
(a) Service jobs that the government must provide.
(b) Public jobs that are issued through political connections.
(c) The name for jobs that have no other definition.
(d) Make-work jobs that have no real function.

2. Who was the president that Richard Daley supposedly helped to elect?
(a) Lyndon Baines Johnson.
(b) Harry S. Truman.
(c) Adalai Stevenson.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

3. According to Royko, What will be the most-remembered political legacy of Richard Daley?
(a) That he was kind and honest.
(b) That he was a political brawler.
(c) That he was upright and consistent.
(d) That he presided over successful public works.

4. What did Royko describe as Richard Daley's character traits?
(a) Loud, profane, immoral and angry.
(b) Simple, quiet, humble and kind.
(c) Hot-tempered, simple, devious and powerful.
(d) Studious, resolved, calm and patient.

5. In what year was Richard Daley born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two titles given to ward committeemen?

2. What did Richard Daley present himself as in his first campaign for Mayor?

3. How were many of the precinct committee positions earned through the years?

4. Royko reported that _______________ were most suspicious of Richard Daley.

5. What were the campaign issues pressed by the Republican candidate in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Richard Daley become to many immigrants according to Mike Royko?

2. How did Richard Daley present himself in his first campaign for Mayor of Chicago?

3. What are two daily rituals that Richard Daley had on his trip to work?

4. How were Chicago neighborhoods like small towns when Richard Daley was growing up?

5. Who opposed Richard Daley's candidacy for Cook County Democratic Chairman, and how did Daley end up getting the position?

6. What were the three types of party officials in a precinct for the Cook County Democratic Party and what did they expect from their efforts?

7. Who was Vito Marzullo, for what was he famous, and what was his reward for his performance?

8. Why did the grand jury report on the Black Panther shootings cause problems for Daley's administration?

9. What were some of the events that happened over the years along the route Richard Daley took to work?

10. Why, according to Mike Royko, were immigrants supportive of Richard Daley?

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