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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic for Chapter IV?
(a) Nepotism and Chicago politics.
(b) Organized Crime and Chicago Politics.
(c) Labor Unions and Chicago Politics.
(d) Operations of the Cook County Democratic Machine.

2. In what year was Richard Daley born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1902.

3. Where did the Introduction first appear?
(a) New York Times.
(b) Chicago Herald.
(c) Chicago Tribune.
(d) Chicago Sun-Times.

4. What motivated racial violence to intensify?
(a) The hotel for the Los Angeles Dodgers denied rooms to the African-American members of the team.
(b) A firetruck with all white fireman ran over a black woman and killed her.
(c) Martin Luther King was assassinated.
(d) The bodies of three civil rights volunteers were found at a construction site on the outskirts of Chicago.

5. What organizations gave Richard Daley his most loyal support?
(a) Law enforcement agencies.
(b) Bowling leagues.
(c) Public schools.
(d) Labor unions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard Daley became connected with a judge named Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. How did they meet?

2. What kind of speaking style did Daley have?

3. Who was the Democrat official who became a rival to Daley in his climb to the chairmanship of the Democratic Central Committee?

4. What was one of the issues that members of the Democratic Central Committee used to oppose Richard Daley during his campaign to become Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee?

5. What did Richard Daley receive when he finally became Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party?

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