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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Timothy Geithner was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during what years?
(a) 2003-2009
(b) 1999-2002
(c) 2001-2010
(d) 2002-2005

2. Where was Hank Paulson born?
(a) Palm Beach, FL
(b) Knoxville, TN
(c) Des Moines, IA
(d) Billings, MT

3. What refers to a security interest in real property held by a lender as a security for a debt?
(a) Mortgage
(b) Stock
(c) Short-seller
(d) Subprime lending

4. The hedge fund Peloton had been started by what former Goldman executive, according to the author in Chapter 5?
(a) Frank Zarb
(b) Bob Steel
(c) Ron Beller
(d) David Goldfarb

5. Gerald Donini asserts when speaking with Jim Cramer in Chapter 5 that he felt the real problem in the marketplace wasn’t short-selling, but what?
(a) Stocks
(b) Naked-shorting
(c) Subprime lending
(d) Derivatives

Short Answer Questions

1. Jamie Dimon told Hank Paulson that JP Morgan had upped its offer from $2 per share to what in Chapter 2?

2. Jamie Dimon was the Chief Executive Officer of what banking and financial services holding company in 2008?

3. Dick Fuld and who called Warren Buffett to ask him to consider investing in Lehman Brothers, according to the author in Chapter 2?

4. Where was the hedge fund Peloton based?

5. On what morning does the author describe Jamie Dimon awakening after an emergency meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with a dozen of his rival Wall Street CEOs in the beginning of the Prologue?

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