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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Chicago race riot of 1919 an important event in Richard Daley's history?
(a) The violence forced his family to move where he made contacts that shaped his career.
(b) He used his negotiating skills to calm down competing gangs.
(c) He was rumoured to be a leader of one of the gangs involved in violence.
(d) He was nearly killed in a counter attack that took place on the street where he lived.

2. What did Richard Daley do through the evenings of the 1920's after he was finished with his day job with the City?
(a) He tended bar for several illegal speakeasies.
(b) He drove a truck delivering coal to factories.
(c) He wrote campaign speeches for Democrat dignitaries.
(d) He attended DePaul Law School.

3. What were the campaign issues pressed by the Republican candidate in the 1955 Chicago mayoral election?
(a) Equal rights and desegregation.
(b) School funding and violent crime.
(c) Corruption in the Police Department and the Democratic Machine.
(d) Inconsistent garbage removal and government waste.

4. What was Richard Daley's response after a commission recommended that the police should treat blacks the same as whites?
(a) He assigned another commission under his control that recommended he keep his policies in place.
(b) He increased abuse against everybody.
(c) He relented and began promoting a, "kinder and gentler," police force.
(d) He ignored the recommendations and increased the use of force.

5. What resulted from the high ranking personnel change that came to Daley at the beginning of his fourth term?
(a) Daley had a direct connection to federal funding that he used to his political advantage.
(b) Daley was sucked into a legal controversy that marred his remaining years as mayor.
(c) Police abuse returned to the black neighborhoods.
(d) Daley lost his control of the Italian neighborhoods and they started voting Republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a famous criminal that Mayor Big Bill Thompson allowed to walk freely through the streets of Chicago?

2. Who did Richard Daley replace at the beginning of his fourth term?

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

4. To what did Richard Daley credit his large majorities in African-American precincts?

5. In what year was Richard Daley born?

(see the answer key)

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