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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 did Richard Daley persist in calling Chicago O'Hare International Airport?
(a) The Airfield.
(b) Kennedy International.
(c) O'Hara.
(d) The Chicago Airstrip.

2. What was Richard Daley able to accomplish with the additional funding that the Republican Governor of Illinois granted to Chicago in 1956?
(a) Show decision makers in Washington that he could support their plans.
(b) Begin new construction and present tangible proof to the voters that he is wasting no time in improving the city.
(c) Show the parents of school children that he wanted to improve education.
(d) Show the voters who could not afford a car that he would help them get to work.

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

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

5. Why did Richard Daley earn a nickname while he was using public funding for various public works projects?
(a) He was behind massive urban renewal developments in poor minority areas of Chicago.
(b) He took personal risk in supporting Adalai Stevenson's nomination for a second run against President Eisenhower.
(c) He improved the downtown and lake front areas and upgraded O'Hare from a military airport to one of the nation's state of the art commercial airports.
(d) The country witnessed his tough political tactics first hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often were Richard Daley's phones checked for bugs?

2. Daley did not personally attack his opponent, but what was one of the things the Democratic Machine did during the election?

3. What skills did Richard Daley learn in the Christian Brothers technical school?

4. What past time of Joe McDonough helped Richard Daley earn political status and why?

5. What did Richard Daley do if an ex-convict applied for a patronage job?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What was Richard Daley's strange moral code?

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

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

5. What did Mike Royko believe will come of the memory of Richard Daley's reign as Mayor of Chicago?

6. Who was Richard Daley's first opponent in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election and what made him a good candidate against Daley?

7. Who won the 1960 presidential election and what was Richard Daley's role in the victory?

8. What was Richard Daley's first achievement as Mayor of Chicago in 1956?

9. What was Richard Daley's margin of victory in 1971 and what did it mean for his power over Chicago?

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

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