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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. Who does the US military ask to visit Germany and assess their air power?
(a) Charles Lindbergh.
(b) Joseph Kennedy.
(c) Waldorf Astor.
(d) Jack Morgan.

2. What is the name of the first Morgan mutual fund?
(a) The Morgan Fund.
(b) The Morgan Family Fund.
(c) The Junius Fund.
(d) The Pierpont Fund.

3. By the mid 1960s how much money does Morgan manage in trust assets?
(a) $15 billion.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $1 billion.
(d) $15 million.

4. When People Express runs into trouble, what airline does it merge with?
(a) Texas Air.
(b) Northwest.
(c) Frontier.
(d) Continental.

5. When does the stock market crash in the 1980s?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the Saudis form a central bank called SAMA?

2. How long was Gebauer's prison sentence for embezzlement?

3. How much does Morgan Grenfell make on the American Tobacco deal?

4. How long does Morgan Stanley suspend its practice of programmed trades on an international basis after the crash in 1987?

5. How much did Tony Gebauer embezzle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the stock market crashes in October 1987?

2. What happens at the Paris office, called Morgan et Compagnie, when the Nazis try to force them to accept Nazi deposits?

3. Why does England sign the Munich Pact and what other countries signed?

4. What Morgan Stanley policy begins to hurt them in the 1970s and comes to a head in 1979 with respect to a $1 billion issue with IBM?

5. Generally, what is Morgan Stanley's role as the premier investment banking firm?

6. What are tombstones?

7. What company does Morgan merge with, and what is the resulting company?

8. When Mussolini has Giovanni Fummi, a Morgan agent, arrested as a spy what happens?

9. What event begins the long relationship between Rupert Murdoch and Morgan Grenfell?

10. What happens at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944?

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