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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Dick Fuld’s mentor at the global financial services firm where he began working and later led the company for much of his career?
(a) Lewis Glucksman
(b) Greg Curl
(c) Jeb Mason
(d) John Mack

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?
(a) Jim Cramer
(b) Daniel A. Simkowitz
(c) Michael Bloomberg
(d) Ben Bernanke

3. From which hedge fund mogul had Scott Friedheim recently bought a black GMC Denali outfitted with internet access and a chauffeur in Chapter 6?
(a) Michael Bloomberg
(b) David Einhorn
(c) Eddie Lampert
(d) Cornelius Vander Starr

4. Who nominated Hank Paulson to his post in the federal cabinet?
(a) Barack Obama
(b) George W. Bush
(c) Dick Cheney
(d) Bill Clinton

5. According to the author in Chapter 5, Jim Cramer, a media star, was solidly Harvard and counted as one of his best friends which individual called “the bane of Wall Street”?
(a) Kevin Warsh
(b) Jim Cracchiolo
(c) Eliot Spitzer
(d) Ron Beller

Short Answer Questions

1. The assignment of Jamie Dimon and a dozen of his rival CEOs at the emergency meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was to come up with a plan to save what company, according to the author in the Prologue?

2. Who was the Chief of Staff at Goldman Sachs in Chapter 9?

3. Who was the founder of the company that would become AIG?

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. After leaving Citigroup, Bob Willumstad went on to start what private-equity fund?

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