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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In general, what are associates expected to do?

2. Depending on the size of the deal that the investment bank brokered, what fluctuated?

3. While investment bankers jobs have stayed somewhat the same, what had changed?

4. How did summer associates get full time jobs?

5. Although the training was fun, what feel did Rolfe and Troob have concerning their new jobs?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the summer began, Troob and Rolfe looked forward to what at DLJ?

2. What is different about printing the prospectus versus printing the pitch book.

3. How has investment banking changed from the Great Depression until the printing of the book?

4. Explain why this chapter was named The Merry-Go-Round.

5. How do new, flourishing, or struggling businesses get capital to expand?

6. Name the sections of the pitch book and what is involved in each section.

7. Why was it assumed that almost everyone would receive bonuses?

8. What is similar about Comparable Multiples Analysis and Discounted Cash flow Analysis?

9. Why do the associates hate the people who work in the word processing department?

10. What causes multiple versions and edits of the pitch book to be made? Even hours before the presentation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although it might not seem as though the book was written with a lot of literary devices, foreshadowing is used quite a lot.

List and describe four times in which foreshadowing occurs throughout the book.

Also answer, what particular event is being foreshadows.

Essay Topic 2

1. Compare and contrast associates Perrentazzi to Troob.

2. Compare and contrast Mike Stevens to Rolfe.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following questions to write about:

1. What two themes are the most prevalent in the book? Discuss the themes and describe two specific situations in which the themes are present.

2. Compare and contrast Ed Star and Les Newton. How are the men alike and different? Why did many people wish to emulate these two men.

3. The theme of exhaustion is ever present during Rolfe and Troob's employment at DLJ. Explain how exhaustion cycles through the DLJ employees in the book.

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