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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Hank Paulson succeed as Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs?
(a) Jamie Dimon
(b) David Einhorn
(c) Jon Corzine
(d) Gerald Donini

2. Who was described as the Chief Financial Officer at Goldman Sachs in Chapter 9?
(a) Andrew Gowers
(b) Joe Gregory
(c) Lloyd Blankfein
(d) David Viniar

3. Bob Willumstad had been asked by the board of AIG to replace whom as CEO in Chapter 8?
(a) Tony Ryan
(b) Eddie Lampert
(c) David Einhorn
(d) Martin Sullivan

4. In Chapter 16, who called JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to come meet with the other Wall Street leaders to look at a solution for the AIG problem?
(a) Timothy Geithner
(b) Jim Cramer
(c) David Goldfarb
(d) David Einhorn

5. 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?
(a) Lloyd Blankfein and Andrew Gowers
(b) David Goldfarb and Scott Friedheim
(c) Steven A. Cohen and Kenneth C. Griffin
(d) Dan Alpert and Bart McDade

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 12 as “a former Republican representative from New York, whom Dimon had hired as executive vice president of global government relations and public policy”?

2. Henry Paulson announced his plan to stop the market panic in Chapter 18. This plan was called TARP, which stands for what?

3. When did FAS 157 become effective?

4. Who in Chapter 17 was the President of the European Central Bank that had been furious with the decision to “let Lehman fail”?

5. What analyze at Fox-Pitt Kelton is quoted in the New York Times in Chapter 13 as saying, “Some may worry that Treasury has taken on so much taxpayer burden they don’t have any remaining capacity to take on the burdens of Lehman”?

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