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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 state disturbed Richard Daley?
2. What made the Cook County Democratic Central Committee so powerful?
3. Who was the Republican candidate opposing Richard Daley in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?
4. Richard Daley had a role in getting Abraham Marovitz appointed to what position?
5. Who was among the more famous ward committeemen from the South Side of Chicago?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was Richard Daley's strategy regarding dirty campaigning?
3. What were three scandals that plagued the Chicago Police Department in 1959 and 1960?
4. Why did Richard Daley have a daily meeting with the director of patronage and why was it important to his power?
5. Who was Abraham Lincoln Marovitz and how did he become acquainted with Richard Daley?
6. What was the comparison Mike Royko made between Richard Daley and the people of the City of Chicago?
7. How did Richard Daley deal with scandals and inefficiencies within the city departments in Chicago?
8. Who was Mike Royko and what was his interest in Richard Daley?
9. What was the most notable contribution Richard Daley made to the Cook County Democratic Central Committee and how was it shown?
10. What did Richard Daley's 1971 election margin mean for his future influence over Chicago?
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
Richard Daley had many good characteristics, but he also used those characteristics in a way that they were corrupted. Write an expository essay on how Richard Daley used some very important character qualities to achieve a goal but allowed those qualities to be used for a system that was corrupted. Conclude your essay with whether or not you believe that corruption such as was ingrained in the Cook County Democratic Party can be cleaned up and how the positive character qualities of Richard Daley could have been used in that cause.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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