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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bob Steel called which old friend at Barclays Bank in London to ask if Barclays might be interested in purchasing Lehman in Chapter 4?
(a) Dan Alpert
(b) Bob Diamond
(c) David Viniar
(d) Vikram Pandit

2. Where was Dick Fuld born?
(a) Dallas, TX
(b) New Orleans, LA
(c) New York, NY
(d) Chicago, IL

3. Where did Dick Fuld receive his B.A. and B.S. in 1969?
(a) The University of Colorado at Boulder
(b) The University of Arizona at Flagstaff
(c) The University of Idaho at Boise
(d) The University of Washington at Tacoma

4. What was the name of Lehman Brothers’ bomb-sniffing Labrador described in Chapter 5?
(a) Sassy
(b) Tenaya
(c) Ducky
(d) Bella

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dick Fuld was the CEO of what global financial services firm in March, 2008?

2. Hank Paulson and his staff prepared a secret plan for how to deal with the situation should Lehman or another large firm go bankrupt, or if several banks should begin to fail at once. Who did they present their plan to in a meeting described by Sorkin in Chapter 4?

3. On what date did Lehman Brothers release its earnings report for the first quarter of 2008?

4. How old was David Einhorn described as being when he prepared for a speech at the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference in Chapter 5?

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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