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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Segregated neighborhoods helped Mayor Daley know where to focus patronage.
(d) 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.

2. What discrepancy was committed by public officials in 1970 that caused problems for the Daley Administration?
(a) A Chicago Tribune discovered that Richard Daley's birthday party thrown by City Hall employees was funded illegally with public money.
(b) A political opponent of Daley's reported that the trip to the Bahamas given as a gift to Daley was illegally funded with campaign donations.
(c) Those who were critical of Daley's decisions pointed to his avoidance of the public as evidence he was becoming a recluse.
(d) Police officers claimed they were defending themselves against an attack by the Black Panthers.

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

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

5. What event led to the biggest scandal of Richard Daley's second term as mayor?
(a) The Attorney General of Illinois investigated and took steps to take control of the Real Estate Division of the City of Chicago.
(b) A burglar was arrested.
(c) Three civil rights activists were found beaten to death and buried at a construction site outside of Chicago.
(d) A former ward committeeman went public with how precincts would routinely, "Vote the graveyard."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Richard Daley claim he made the moves that he did with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?

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

3. What is a campaign tactic that Richard Daley used against all of his election opponents?

4. What happened on Richard Daley's 68th birthday?

5. What happened to honest officials in the department that became troublesome for Richard Daley?

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