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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The town where Rich and Pinky set up their headquarters allowed individuals to conduct business by doing what?
(a) Signing a petition.
(b) Putting up a sign.
(c) Registering at a council.
(d) Paying a bribe.

2. Who was the Shah of Iran in 1979?
(a) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
(b) Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.
(c) Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar.
(d) Mohammad Shah Qajar.

3. When was the Ayatollah Khomeini born?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1930.

4. How many top traders left with Rich and Pinky who had begun their own business in Chapter 7?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. In Chapter 7, Rich and Pinky began to plot what would later be referred to as what?
(a) "The Mutiny."
(b) "The Trojan Horse."
(c) "The Catastrophe."
(d) "The Setup."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marc Rich begin shipping from the Philippines in Chapter 10?

2. Where was Rich's first office for his new company, according to Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 7, Rich made a deal with Iran in which Rich agreed to pay how much over the current barrel price?

4. What was the name that Rich registered his company in Chapter 8?

5. Where is sixty-five percent of the world's cobalt mined?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the principle hiring standard that Marc Rich had at his firm?

2. What was the reaction of the New York offices following the gunpoint incident in Chapter 10? How was Rich connected to the affair?

3. How were the young traders at Marc Rich's firm described?

4. What happened to Robbie Lichtenstern in Chapter 14? How did he die?

5. What did Rich register his company as in Chapter 8? Where did he operate?

6. What was the main problem for Philipp Brothers with the oil trade? Who was concerned about Rich's risks?

7. Where were Rich's offices in Chapter 8? How were they described?

8. Who was found murdered in Chapter 13? What was speculated as the cause of the murder?

9. Where did Rich turn for more oil in the 1970s? How great did his oil empire become?

10. What happened to Mark Rich's reputation once it became known he had purchased 20th Century Fox?

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