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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened on Richard Daley's 68th birthday?
(a) He spent a quiet evening in seclusion with his family.
(b) The Democratic Central Committee gave Daley and his wife a trip to the Bahamas.
(c) A grand jury published a report that indicted police for abuse during a raid on a West Side residence where two Black Panther leaders were killed.
(d) City employees gave Daley a big party that was visited by high-ranking Democrats from across the country.

2. To what did Richard Daley credit his large majorities in African-American precincts?
(a) Street repair projects.
(b) The involvement of Martin Luther King in civil rights controversies.
(c) His decision to move into an African-American neighborhood to initiate desegregation efforts.
(d) His door-to-door campaigning.

3. What did Richard Daley actually do with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?
(a) He took money from City Hall to pay back the Cook County Democratic Party for the Bahamas trip expenses.
(b) He did not follow up on his promises to reform the Police Department after the deaths of the Black Panthers.
(c) The political advisor was actually a close friend from the Democratic Central Committee and they just spent an increasing amount of time together.
(d) He took money out of the Cook County Democratic Party campaign fund to pay back City Hall for the party expenses.

4. Where did Daley choose to begin his urban renewal projects?
(a) Along Waveland Avenue near Wrigley Field.
(b) On the south side between Daley's Irish Catholic birthplace and an African-American neighborhood.
(c) West Halsted Street near the Chicago International Amphitheatre where the 1968 Democrat National Convention was eventually held.
(d) An old Italian neighborhood known as the Valley.

5. What was the result of an effort to prove that Richard Daley's neighbors were intolerant of segregating neighborhoods based on color?
(a) A riot broke out in Mayor Daley's neighborhood and the African-American students were forced to move out after only a few days.
(b) The Chicago School Board ignored the requests and kept the students in their assigned schools.
(c) Police opened up fire hoses and scattered the protestors.
(d) Business owners had the protestors arrested and took law suits against the leaders that organized the protests.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large and what was the make up of the security detail for the 1968 Democratic National convention?

2. What resulted from the high ranking personnel change that came to Daley at the beginning of his fourth term?

3. What did Martin Luther King do when Mayor Daley's actions did not satisfactorily address the problems of segregation?

4. How many protesters arrived in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention?

5. What did the public officials do in the 1970 scandal that compounded the problems for Richard Daley?

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