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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) David Einhorn
(b) Eddie Lampert
(c) Michael Bloomberg
(d) Cornelius Vander Starr

2. On the heels of David Einhorn’s campaign against Lehman Brothers, Lehman’s stock had fallen how much since Einhorn’s speech in May, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 31.0%
(b) 37.2%
(c) 12.5%
(d) 22.6%

3. Where did Hank Paulson earn his B.A. in English?
(a) Dartmouth College
(b) Yale University
(c) Harvard University
(d) Stanford University

4. 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) Vikram Pandit
(b) Dan Alpert
(c) Bob Diamond
(d) David Viniar

5. What does FDIC stand for?
(a) Federal Denomination Investment Clause
(b) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(c) Financial Deposit Insurance Company
(d) Fiscal Depreciation Investment Corporation

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author say Gerald Domini lived in Chapter 5?

2. Who is described in Chapter 12 as the Chairman of the Financial Services Commission in Korea?

3. Bob Willumstad had been asked by the board of AIG to replace whom as CEO in Chapter 8?

4. What critic for Architecture Magazine, wrote of the New York Federal Reserve Building in 1927 that the three-year-old building had “a quality which, for lack of a better word, I can best describe as epic”?

5. 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?

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