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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. What does Livingston do when the alternate exchanges start to try and manipulate him?
(a) He starts reverse manipulations.
(b) He quits and goes to New York.
(c) He calls the police.
(d) He buys the exchange.

2. What is happening to wheat prices when Livingston is trading it?
(a) It's declining.
(b) It's staying the same.
(c) It's moving up and down everyday.
(d) It's going up.

3. How old was Livingston when he made his first $1000?
(a) 17.
(b) 21.
(c) 15.
(d) 19.

4. What does Livingston do after he sold all the stock in Union Pacific and after the earthquake?
(a) Bought a lot of mutual funds.
(b) Started buying Union Pacific again.
(c) Went into index funds.
(d) Went into commodoties.

5. Why do the bucket shops begin banning Livingston?
(a) He wins too much.
(b) He has stolen money.
(c) He runs other customers away.
(d) He is obnoxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should one do in a bull market?

2. What does Union Pacific announce that dismays Livingston?

3. Where is Livingston trading at the start of Chapter V?

4. What concerns Livingston in 1906?

5. What fascinates the young Livingston?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Livingston still losing money on Wall Street?

2. What's the difference between trading on Wall Street and bucket shops and how does it affect Livingston?

3. What happens when Livingston first comes back from St. Louis?

4. How much regulation is there in the stocks in Livingston's era and how did that affect the stocks?

5. What does Livingston do with Roberts suggestion?

6. What job did Livingston have when the book opened and how are stock quotes done?

7. How does LIvingston sell off Union Pacific and why does he do it?

8. What commodities has Livingston been trading and how is that going?

9. What does Livingston say again about the bucket shops and Wall Street?

10. Why does Livingston return to Boston and what happens when he does?

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