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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 was Richard Daley's unusual moral code?
(a) I don't care what you do as long as I don't catch you doing it.
(b) Do as I say, not as I do.
(c) Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Democrat.
(d) Thou shalt not steal but though shalt not blow the whistle on anybody who does.

2. What would happen to ward committeemen if they did not deliver votes on election day?
(a) Their precinct lost funding for projects he requested.
(b) He would end up, "sleeping with the fishes."
(c) They lost their position with the Cook County Democratic Central Committee.
(d) The Democratic Party poured more campaign funds in his area for the next election.

3. What did Richard Daley provide these organizations to maintain their support?
(a) He worked to get government grants to provide law enforcement officials with the most up-to-date weaponry and forensic equipment.
(b) He influenced bowling alleys throughout Chicago to provide free league nights.
(c) He paid at the top of the scale in union wages and provided an unending stream of massive public works projects requiring union workers.
(d) He used public revenues to assure that the Chicago Public Schools System was fully funded and materials were easily made available.

4. Who was among the more famous ward committeemen from the South Side of Chicago?
(a) Al Capone.
(b) Vito Marzullo.
(c) Adalai Stevenson.
(d) Abraham Marovitz.

5. To what or whom did Royko compare Richard Daley's character?
(a) The City of Chicago.
(b) A kindly father figure.
(c) George Washington.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard Daley became connected with a judge named Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. How did they meet?

2. What was the most important rule Richard Daley learned from Joe McDonough?

3. Where did the Introduction first appear?

4. What did Royko describe as Richard Daley's character traits?

5. What would Richard Daley do if he discovered one of his married, Catholic appointees was having an affair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the most notable contribution Richard Daley made to the Cook County Democratic Central Committee and how was it shown?

2. What did a grand jury report on Richard Daley's 68th birthday?

3. What law enforcement order did Richard Daley make during riots that broke out after the assassination of Martin Luther King?

4. Where was Richard Daley customarily dropped off in the early years that he was Mayor of Chicago to make his regular stops before he went to City Hall, and why was that drop-off point changed?

5. Why did Richard Daley have a daily meeting with the director of patronage and why was it important to his power?

6. What was the name of a club that Richard Daley belonged to and who did he meet in that club that taught him about Chicago politics?

7. 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?

8. What are some of the ethnic neighborhoods that Richard Daley passed through as he was being driven to work everyday that he was Mayor of Chicago?

9. What is nepotism and how did Richard Daley use it?

10. How did Richard Daley earn and keep the support of unions?

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