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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 were the qualifications that a ward committeeman had to prove to get appointed to the head of a city department?

2. Upon what has Richard Daley's quick rise in political influence been credited?

3. What was the label that was given to those who had similar views to Richard Daley in the Cook County Democratic Party?

4. What is the topic of Chapter I?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Abraham Lincoln Marovitz and how did he become acquainted with Richard Daley?

4. 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?

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

6. What infamous Chicago event took place in 1919 the day after Richard Daley graduated from his post-high school training and why was it important to Daley's story?

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

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

9. What were some of the things that police were involved in that made the Chicago Police Department corrupt?

10. What was a rumor the Democratic Machine spread about Alderman Robert Merriam to help Richard Daley's win the 1955 mayoral election?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What part of Richard Daley's personal background made him intolerant of officials in his administration who had extramarital affairs? Do you consider his strong moral stand in this area to be inconsistent with his obvious tolerance of officials who abused their power for financial gain as long as they did not get caught? Explain how this inconsistency actually made him more dangerous in the corruption he accepted.

Essay Topic 2

A burglary scandal in the police department brought Richard Daley to his lowest point emotionally and politically in early 1960, but his appointment of Orlando Wilson to Chief of Police and his electoral victories in the 1960 election (under very suspicious circumstances) brought many to consider Daley the second most powerful man in the country. How might Daley's administration and the influence of the Machine been affected if the 1960 election had not been so convincing?

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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