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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did people have to do to stay safe in Chicago while Richard Daley was growing up?

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

4. Why did Royko consider Richard Daley to be a believable father figure to Chicagoans?

5. In what year did Richard Daley die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Mike Royko and what was his interest in Richard Daley?

2. What was Richard Daley's response when a commission ruled the Chicago Police Department was to treat African-Americans the same as whites?

3. What was the event that set the stage for violent confrontations at the 1968 Democrat National Convention scheduled for Chicago?

4. 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?

5. What was the comparison Mike Royko made between Richard Daley and the people of the City of Chicago?

6. 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?

7. How did Chicago's city government conspire to segregate neighborhoods?

8. How did Richard Daley perform in the segregated neighborhoods during the election for his fourth term, and to what did Daley attribute the results?

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

10. What types of jobs did ward committeemen hold?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining why you think that segregation might have gotten started in Chicago and why the city government might have had an interest in sustaining it.

Essay Topic 2

Think of the rules of Chicago politics: ". . . help your friends, hurt your enemies, adjust a case through the police and add up the votes until they come out right. Most important rule--don't get caught. Don't repeat what you hear." How did these rules help to develop a closed political system that exerted control over what was then the country's second most populated city? Write a full examination of what it would take for these rules to have control over the city and how each contributes to the strength of the other. Which do you consider most important in a political system? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The 1968 Democratic National Convention was distracted by antiwar demonstrations and police brutality against war protesters. What were the warning signs between 1966 to the beginning of 1967 that President Johnson could have read before making the decision to make Chicago the host city of the convention? Why might President Johnson have been persuaded to choose Chicago as the host city in spite of the indications that turmoil might emerge from the charged political environment there? Explain President Johnson's responsibility for exposing the Democratic Party to the turmoil that erupted in Chicago.

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