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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the attention news agencies gave to the April event set up what eventually occurred at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
(a) The lack of public attention to police abuse of peace marchers allowed Richard Daley to believe that the public was not concerned with their treatment.
(b) Both political parties recognized that they would have to become more sensitive to demands from civil rights activists.
(c) McCarthy supporters were discounted as irrelevant and Eugene McCarthy quickly faded from the national stage of political influence.
(d) Middle class and middle aged voters began supporting abuse against antiwar protesters.

2. How was Richard Daley's initial urban renewal effort accepted by those who who used the areas?
(a) Cubs fans were mildly inconvenienced, but hoped the changes would bring a World Series to the Friendly Confines.
(b) Residents in the Valley staged an uprising.
(c) Both the Irish and African American residents were suspicious at first but came to appreciate the efforts to improve and open their neighborhoods.
(d) The indigents who frequented Halsted Street alleys were chased off and eventually resettled in Gary, Indiana.

3. What finally forced Richard Daley to hear the demands of Martin Luther King?
(a) The arrest of Dr. King on the false charges threatened to bring down the Democrat Machine if Daley did not act.
(b) Daley was impressed with Dr. King's vision from the speech.
(c) Daley realized that he had to act to assuage the anger in segregated neighborhoods after Dr. King's assassination.
(d) White voters became angry with the turmoil in their neighborhoods.

4. How did Richard Daley treat department heads who did not perform well?
(a) He quietly found replacements and removed them from office.
(b) He publicly took control of the departments and took credit for improvements.
(c) Daley defended and kept them in until he was ready to replace them.
(d) He ignored their performance hoping the press would not notice.

5. How did Richard Daley handle complaints against his department heads?
(a) He ignored the complaints with the knowledge that the machine would take care of all problems.
(b) Daley played the innocent game and deferred complaints to the Department heads.
(c) He blamed federal restrictions against the sovereignty of cities to act on its problems.
(d) He took personal responsibility noting that the appointments were his alone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Richard Daley claim he made the moves that he did with the 1970 scandal involving public officials?

3. Who did Richard Daley convince to hold the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?

4. How did Richard Daley address the corruption within the city government?

5. Who did Richard Daley run as Democrat candidate for Cook County Sheriff in 1971?

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