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CHAPTER THREE
The American Mafia
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The
____________ emerged in the nineteenth-century New York as a lawful fraternal society
designed to advance the interests of Sicilian immigrants.
2. Unione
Siciliana
3. La
Cosa Nostra
4. Mafia
5. None
of these
ANS:
A
LO: 1
REF: 47
2. Which
of the following was a struggle for domination in New York?
3. Italian
War
4. Castellammarese
War
5. Mafia
War
6. Murder,
Inc.
ANS:
B
LO: 2
REF: 47 | 48
3. Which
of the following was involved in the Castellammarese War?
4. The
Maranzano group
5. The
Masseria group
6. Both
a and b
7. None
of these
ANS:
C
LO: 2
REF: 47
4. At
the center of the American Mafia Family patron-client network is:
5. the
Boss
6. the sottocapo
7. the consigliere
8. the
made-man
ANS:
A
LO: 3 |
6
REF: 49
5. In
the New York Model, the crime unit is tied together in a network that includes
which of the following?
6. nonmember
associates
7. members
8. captains
9. all
of these
ANS: D
LO:
6
REF: 49 | 50 | 51
6. Who
surrounds the captains?
7. clients
8. the
crime unit
9. soldiers
10.
none of these
ANS:
C
LO: 6
REF: 50
7. Members
of an organization who are not necessarily guided by their organization’s
goals, but share a common interest in the survival of the system are considered
members of:
8. a
unilateral system
9. a
hierarchical system
10.
a bureaucratic system
11.
a natural system
ANS: D
LO:
6
REF: 50
8. In
New York, an organized crime group is referred to as ___________.
9. The
Outfit
10.
a Family
11.
Il Gruppo
12.
The Office:
ANS:
B
LO: 6
REF: 51
9. Which
of the following demonstrate their value to the Family with financial success?
10.
Earners
11.
Shooters
12.
Both a and b
13.
None of these
ANS:
A
LO: 6
REF: 53
10.
Members and associates are organized into ___________,
semi-independent units nominally headed by a caporegime, a capodecina, a street
boss, or even a soldier.
11.
compadres
12.
crews
13.
compartments
14.
comrads
ANS:
B
LO: 6
REF: 55
11.
With the deaths of Masseria and Maranzano, __________ became the
most important Italian OC figure in New York.
12.
Lucky Luciano
13.
Frank Costello
14.
Vito Genovese
15.
John Gotti
ANS:
A
LO: 2
REF: 48
12.
According to the text, New York OC bosses are linked in a rather
informal arrangement known as:
13.
the crew
14.
the confederacy
15.
the commission
16.
the conglomeration
ANS:
C
LO: 3 | 6
REF: 59
13.
Which of the following has made the position of boss less
desirable than in the past?
14.
Increased surveillance
15.
Increased prosecution
16.
Both a and b
17.
None of these
ANS:
C
LO: 3
REF: 58
14.
The role of the Boss is to:
15.
resolve disputes
16.
make money
17.
recruit new members
18.
hire organizers
ANS:
A
LO: 1 | 3 | 6
REF: 57 | 58
15.
In what year was Chicago incorporated as a town?
16.
1800
17.
1833
18.
1853
19.
1870
ANS: B
LO:
3
REF: 60
16.
The origins of OC in Chicago can be traced to the mayoralty
election of 1873, in which ___________ backed the victorious candidate for
mayor.
17.
Big Bill Thompson
18.
John Coughlin
19.
Mike McDonald
20.
Michael Kenna
ANS:
C
LO: 3
REF: 61
17.
__________ began his political career as a rubber in the
exclusive Palmer Baths.
18.
Big Bill Thompson
19.
John Coughlin
20.
Mike McDonald
21.
Michael Kenna
ANS: B
LO:
3
REF: 61
18.
What was key to the power of Kenna and Coughlin?
19.
Delivering the vote
20.
Cornering the drug market
21.
Cornering the gambling market
22.
All of these
ANS:
A
LO: 3
REF: 63
19.
Following the election of ______________ as mayor of Chicago in
1915, the spoils system swept over the city like a noxious blight, and city
hall became a symbol for corruption and incompetence.
20.
Big Bill Thompson
21.
John Coughlin
22.
Mike McDonald
23.
Michael Kenna
ANS:
A
LO: 3
REF: 62
20.
In 1902, _____________ married a brothel keeper and began to
manage her business.
21.
Capone
22.
Torrio
23.
Giancana
24.
Colosimo
ANS: D
LO:
4
REF: 63
21.
Who did Colosimo leave in charge of his operations?
22.
Capone
23.
Torrio
24.
Giancana
25.
Colosimo, Jr.
ANS:
B
LO: 4
REF: 64
22.
With the coming of ___________, the personnel of organized vice
took the lead in the systematic organization of this new and profitable field
of exploitation.
23.
Prohibition
24.
immigration
25.
Both a and b
26.
None of these
ANS: A
LO:
4
REF: 64
23.
Eventually, Capone moved his headquarters from Chicago to
_________, where he took over the Hawthorne Inn.
24.
Cicero
25.
Boston
26.
Evanston
27.
Las Vegas
ANS:
A
LO: 4
REF: 65
24.
Who was supposed to be the victim of the St. Valentine’s Day
massacre?
25.
Capone
26.
Torrio
27.
O’Banion
28.
Bugs Moran
ANS:
D
LO: 4 | 5
REF: 67
25.
The most important event for Capone was a 1927 U. S. Supreme
Court decision ____________ that
upheld the Internal Revenue Service’s contention that even unlawful income was
subject to income taxes.
26.
United States v. Sullivan
27.
Gregg v. Georgia
28.
Lewis v. Wilkinson
29.
Tennessee v. Garner
ANS:
A
LO: 4
REF: 69
26.
As an adolescent, ___________ served as a gunman for Al Capone.
27.
Nitti
28.
Torrio
29.
Giancana
30.
Colosimo
ANS:
C
LO: 4
REF: 70
TRUE/FALSE
1. Among
the Italian immigrants were mafiosi who
established protection regimes in every American city that had a sizable
Sicilian population.
ANS: T
LO: 1
REF: 47
2. The
struggle for domination of Italian-American OC in New York became known as the
Castellammarese War because Maranzano and many of his supporters came from the
small Sicilian coastal town of Castellammare del Golfo.
ANS:
T
LO: 2
REF: 47 | 48
3. In
the New York model of the American Mafia, each of the bosses is entirely
disconnected from every other.
ANS: F
LO: 3 | 6
REF: 50 | 59
4. Although
any number of members may be related, the term Family does not imply kinship by blood
or marriage.
ANS:
T
LO: 1 | 3 | 6
REF: 51
5. By
2004, the heads of all five Families were incarcerated.
ANS:
T
LO: 3 | 6
REF: 49
6. When
millions of Italians immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, social and economic circumstances available to
them were bleak and hostile.
ANS:
T
LO: 1
REF: 46
7. Until
Mike McDonald, gambling had been rather unorganized in Chicago and so were
politics.
ANS: T
LO: 4 | 6
REF: 61
8. The
Capone Organization can best be described not as a hierarchy directed by Al
Capone but rather as a senior partnership involving four men, who in turn
entered into a variety of partnerships to run specific enterprises.
ANS:
T
LO: 4
REF: 69
9. Colosimo
opened several brothels and a string of gambling houses.
ANS:
T
LO: 3 | 4
REF: 63
10.
After Colosimo’s death, Capone succeeded to the First Ward based
Italian ‘syndicate’ throne, which he occupied until his retirement in 1925.
ANS:
F
LO: 1
REF: 64
11.
“Diamond Jim” Colosimo was reluctant to get into bootlegging
because he was fearful of federal enforcement efforts.
ANS:
T
LO: 4
REF: 64
12.
Bugs Moran was not in the warehouse at the time, even though the
“St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” had been arranged in his honor.
ANS:
T
LO: 4
REF: 67
13.
In 1931, Capone was found guilty of income-tax evasion.
ANS: T
LO: 4
REF: 69
14.
The Capone Organization can be described as hierarchical.
ANS:
T
LO: 3
REF: 69
15.
The Outfit’s political base in the First Ward has been
destroyed.
ANS:
T
LO: 14 | 5
REF: 74
FILL IN THE BLANK
1. Between
1891 and 1920, 4 million Italians entered the United States. Most came from the
area south of Rome—in particular, Sicily, Naples, and its surrounding Campania
area, and the province of Calabria . This area is called the ___________.
ANS:
Mezzogiorno
LO:
1
REF: 46
2. The _____________ emerged
in 19th century New York as a lawful fraternal society designed to
advance the interests of Sicilian immigrants.
ANS: Unione
Siciliana
LO:
1
REF: 47
3. By
1930, there were two major Mafia factions in New York, one headed by ______________ operating
out of the Little Italy of East Harlem, and the other by ______________ whose
business office was in midtown Manhattan.
ANS: Giuseppe Masseria, Salvatore
Maranzano
LO: 1 | 2 REF: 47
4. At
the center of the universe of an American Mafia unit is the ____________.
ANS:
boss
LO: 3
REF: 49
5. The
conflict that arose in 1930 between the two major Mafia factions in New York is
known as ____________.
ANS: Castellamarese
War
LO: 2
REF: 47
6. _____________ once
worked as an assistant to Johnny Torrio.
ANS: Al
Capone
LO: 4
REF: 64
7. The Chicago
Outfit is organized on the basis of separate
ANS: street
crews
LO: 4
REF: 71
8. Chicago
is remarkable for the extent to which persons of various ethnicities have been
integrated into the dominant criminal organization, now known as ___________
ANS: the
Outfit
LO: 4
REF: 60
9. The
origins of OC in Chicago can be traced to mayoralty election of 1873, in
which __________________ backed
the victorious candidate for mayor.
ANS: Mike
McDonald
LO: 4
REF: 61
10.
Capone moved his headquarters from Chicago to __________ where
he took over the Hawthorne Inn.
ANS: Cicero
LO: 4
REF: 65
ESSAY
1. What
historical factors are related to the prominence of Italians in OC in the US?
ANS: Millions of Italian immigrants arrived in the US
between 1891 and 1920, at the peak (soon to wane) of the Robber Baron era, and
at the inception of Prohibition. The children grew up in desperate slums.
The Irish immigrants who came before them already controlled the
political and economic spheres. In order to beat rival organizations,
criminals of Sicilian descent reproduced the kind of illegal groups they had
belonged to in the old country.
Italian Prime Minister Mussolini persecuted the mafia in Italy
and many came to the US. These factors converged with the opportunities for
illegal gain provided by Prohibition to create Italian American organized crime
prominence.
LO:
1
REF: 46
2. Explain
the role of the boss in the New York model of Italian organized crime.
ANS: The boss—the paterfamilias is
at the center of the structure. The structure resembles a model of the
universe; the boss is surrounded by clients, for example, captains (capiregime), to whom he
acts as a patron.
LO:
6
REF: 49
3. State
the main points about the origin and ending of the Castellammarese War and tell
what developed in the immediate aftermath.
ANS: The Castellammarese War was a struggle between two
factions of Italian American organized crime in New York during and after
Prohibition. The conflict was in part between the old country
“moustaches” and younger fellows who were Americanized.
The war ended when the leaders of both factions were murdered
and Lucky Luciano emerged as the most important Italian Mafia figure in New
York.
LO: 2
REF: 47 | 48
4. How
does an individual become a member of a Mafia Family? Describe the process,
from recruitment to initiation.
ANS: To be eligible for membership, a young man (there are
no female members) must be of Italian descent. The prospective member
must have a sponsor and a history of successful criminal activity or possess
certain skills required by the group.
Every potential member is expected to participate in a murder.
Initiation involves ceremonies, passwords and rituals, and rules
of conduct with which members must abide. The ceremony with the boss, the consigliere, the
underboss, and the captain who brings you in. They prick your trigger finger
and make it bleed, and then they put a little piece of paper; they set it on
fire and burn it in your hand; you repeat after them that you will never betray
La Cosa Nostra, or you will burn like the paper is burning in your hand. Your
life does not belong to you anymore; your life belongs to them.
LO: 3
REF: 51 | 52 | 53
5. When
reformer William Dever was elected mayor of Chicago in 1923, the system of
political/police protection broke down. Describe what happened then.
ANS: Extremely violent inter-gang competition—the “Chicago
Wars”—erupted. The system of political/police protection broke down, and
in the ensuing confusion, Chicago became a battleground. The most
significant feud was between the Torrio-Capone syndicate and rhe forces headed
by O’Banion.
LO:
5
REF: 66
6. What
was Johnny Torrio’s and Al Capone’s importance in the development of organized
crime in Chicago?
ANS: Torrio and Capone saw the opportunity for riches that
Prohibition would present to the gangs and, on the other hand, the loss of
competitive advantage to other gangs that would occur if they did not jump
in. Their boss, Colosimo, did not want to participate, fearing
bootlegging would bring federal law enforcement down on them. Colosimo
ended up dead soon after. Torrio excelled as a master strategist and
organizer and quickly built up an empire. The Torrio-Capone organization
became crime overlords.
LO:
4
REF: 64
7. Describe
the structure of the American Mafia in New York.
ANS: The American Mafia in New York is a confederation of
Five Families of Italian American heritage. Each Family has particular
geographic and/or industry territories. Families cannot infringe on each
other’s “business.” A commission consisting of representatives from the
leadership of each Family is charged with settling inter-Family disputes.
A Family boss or member cannot murder a boss or member of another Family.
If the individual indeed needs to be “taken out,” his own Family has the right
to do the job.
LO:
6
REF: 49 | 50
8. Describe
the structure of the American Mafia in Chicago.
ANS: In Chicago, the connection between politics and the
dominant criminal organization has been extraordinary both for its intensity
and longevity. Chicago has also been remarkable for the extent to which persons
of various ethnicity have been integrated into the dominant criminal
organization, now known as “The Outfit.” The nature of OC in Chicago is
intimately intertwined with politics. It started with Mike McDonald, the
gambling boss of Chicago, demonstrated that under effective leadership the
gamblers, liquor interests, and brothel keepers could be welded into a
formidable political power.
LO:
6
REF: 72 | 73
9. What
happens—how does the public react—when organized crime violence escalates? Does
the public become more tolerant or less tolerant of the organized crime group,
and why?
ANS: When organized crime is not noticeably violent in a
community, people are likely to perceive it as helpful. It performs some
quasi-police functions, keeping street crime down, and provides some cultural
enjoyments such as gambling and prostitution (enjoyable for some). But
when violence escalates, the public loses its tolerance for organized crime and
demands reform. The sentence, “Gang wars are bad for business,” indicates
that organized crime group leaders are aware of the public’s dislike of
escalating violence.
LO:
5
REF: 67
10.
What was Italian immigrant life like in New York City in the
early 1900s?
ANS: By early 1900, about 500,000 (mostly southern)
Italians lived in New York City, in the most deprived social and economic
circumstances. Italian immigration transformed the neighborhood into a kind of
human ant heap in which suffering, crime, ignorance, and filth were the
dominant elements. The Italian immigrant provided the cheap labor.
LO:
1
REF: 46
CHAPTER FIVE
Italian Organized Crime and the Albanian Connection
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The
southern Italians developed an ideal of:
2. manliness
3. omertá
4. vendetta
5. all
of these
ANS:
D
LO: 1
REF: 106
2. Members
of the Mafia refer to the organization as _____________?
3. Omertá
4. Vendetta
5. Cosa
Nostra
6. Capo
di Famiglia
ANS:
C
LO: 4
REF: 113
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