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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bart McDade and Skip McGee from Lehman Brothers met with whom from KDB to hammer out a deal in Chapter 11?
(a) Min Euoo Song
(b) Vikram Pandit
(c) Jun Kwang-woo
(d) Gao Xiqing

2. What is the common name for the Federal National Mortgage Association?
(a) Ameriprise
(b) Reserve Primary Fund
(c) Wachovia
(d) Fannie Mae

3. Lloyd Blankfein was waiting to make a speech in Chapter 14 that discussed Goldman Sachs’ nonprofit program that fostered business and management education for whom?
(a) Minorities
(b) Women
(c) The elderly
(d) Children

4. Henry Paulson cut his meeting short with the bankers in Chapter 11 because he was going with his family to attend the Olympic Games where?
(a) Beijing
(b) London
(c) Vancouver
(d) Atlanta

5. Who was described in Chapter 17 as “a thirty-eight-year-old governor at the Federal Reserve, whose office was a few doors down from Bernanke’s”?
(a) Brian Moynihan
(b) Rick Waddell
(c) Jeb Mason
(d) Kevin Warsh

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 11 as the Vice Chairman of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley?

2. Who was described by the author in Chapter 14 as Bank of America’s President of Global Corporate and Investment Banking?

3. Who was described as the Managing Director of Westwood Capital LLC in Chapter 11?

4. Who was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets of the Treasury in Chapter 11?

5. According to the author in Chapter 12, “Internally, JP Morgan’s operating committee trips to Washington were jokingly referred to as” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Henry Paulson respond when solicited for help from Bob Diamond and Ken Lewis in Chapter 13?

2. What led to the cease of negotiations between Lehman and its potential investor in Chapter 11?

3. What were the conclusions that were found by the CEOs in Chapter 16? How did they report this news to Geithner?

4. How did the deal between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch influence John Mack’s actions in Chapter 15?

5. What were the principle causes for Dick Fuld’s increasing stress in the beginning of Chapter 12?

6. What events does the author describe taking place on September 10, 2008, in the opening of Chapter 13?

7. What plan was announced by Henry Paulson and drafted into a bill in Chapter 18?

8. What was discussed in the meeting between Dick Fuld and Timothy Geithner in Chapter 10?

9. What negotiations took place in the scramble to save Lehman Brothers in Chapter 12?

10. What was the outcome after the bailout of AIG, according to the author in Chapter 17?

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