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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 11 as the Vice Chairman of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley?
(a) Daniel A. Simkowitz
(b) Hank Greenberg
(c) Eliot Spitzer
(d) Lewis Glucksman

2. Who was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets of the Treasury in Chapter 11?
(a) Anthony Ryan
(b) Bob Steel
(c) Lloyd Blankfein
(d) Ron Beller

3. What is the common name for the Federal National Mortgage Association?
(a) Reserve Primary Fund
(b) Fannie Mae
(c) Wachovia
(d) Ameriprise

4. What giant money market fund had “broken the buck a day earlier” in Chapter 17?
(a) Reserve Primary Fund
(b) Westwood Capital LLC
(c) China Investment Corporation
(d) The International Monetary Fund

5. By what name is the regulation that “had been introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938 to prevent investors from continually shorting a stock that was falling” called?
(a) The downdraft rule
(b) The salvation rule
(c) The uptick rule
(d) The cutback rule

Short Answer Questions

1. Freddie Mac had a reported loss of how much in the morning when Henry Paulson met with the top bankers at the Treasury building in Chapter 11?

2. Who complained to Henry Paulson that short sellers were spreading false rumors to drive the panic after the government’s intervention with AIG in Chapter 17?

3. Jim Cracchiolo was described as the head of what institution in Chapter 17?

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, Dick Fuld “said that he had become convinced that two of the nation’s most powerful financiers were largely responsible for both the short raid and rumor mongering.” Who were these financiers?

5. Bob Steel called which old friend at Barclays Bank in London to ask if Barclays might be interested in purchasing Lehman in Chapter 4?

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