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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Learning to Love Your Corporate Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker who eventually wins the hearts and minds of the back row in the Salomon Brothers training program describes the trading floor as a _____.
(a) Ballet.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) War zone.
(d) Jungle.

2. Which leading bond analyst from Salomon Brothers gives a speech at the Wharton School about how he can't get women to pay attention to him at cocktail parties?
(a) Sidney Homer.
(b) Myron Samuels.
(c) John Meriwether.
(d) John Gutfreund.

3. By definition, an analyst's job lasts how long?
(a) A lifetime.
(b) Six months.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Two years.

4. Though he was rejected by Harvard, Gutfreund eventually graduated from ______.
(a) Oxford.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Oberlin.
(d) Yale.

5. With whom has the author received an invitation to dine?
(a) The queen mother.
(b) Lady Diana.
(c) Prince Charles.
(d) Queen Elizabeth II.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gutfreund's challenging of Meriwether to a game of Liar's Poker is his way of showing he is ______.

2. Lewis states that analysts don't analyze anything; they are just _____ to corporate financiers.

3. For the author, the stigma of getting a job through connections is worse than the stigma of ______.

4. Traders prove their superiority in a Wall Street firm every day by doing what?

5. A _____ of personal popularity is how Lewis thinks trainees are chosen by managers.

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