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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Warren Buffett is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of what American multinational conglomerate holding company?
(a) BlackRock
(b) Westwood Capital LLC
(c) Wells Fargo
(d) Berkshire Hathaway

2. In what year does the author state Long-Term Capital Management blew up in Chapter 5?
(a) 1999
(b) 1996
(c) 1998
(d) 1995

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

4. Who was the head of communications at Lehman Brothers in Chapter 6?
(a) Andrew Gowers
(b) Michael Cavanaugh
(c) Jeremiah Norton
(d) Tony Ryan

5. Hank Paulson and his staff prepared a secret plan for how to deal with the situation in Chapter 4. Their plan proposed that should the banks fail, the Treasury Department would purchase up to how many of the bad assets of the banks in order to stabilize the market?
(a) $300 billion
(b) $500 billion
(c) $100 billion
(d) $200 billion

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 3, Bob Steel knew he would face scrutiny from which U.S. senator who opposed government intervention in the markets?

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. Where was Dick Fuld born?

4. What was the largest and most prestigious investment bank in the nation that Jamie Dimon advised his staff could possibly file bankruptcy in the Prologue?

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

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