The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Quiz

Michael Lewis (author)

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

The first night of the conference in Chapter 6, Steve Eisman was seated next to a man who was a CDO manager for what company? (from Chapters 6-7)

FrontPoint.

Standard & Poor's.

Cornwall Capital Management.

Merrill Lynch.

2.

Who went to a conference of subprime mortgage bond professionals and learned from a woman that her supervisors picked and chose which mortgage bonds would be triple-A rated despite her frequent recommendations that most of them be downgraded? (from Chapters 4-5)

Ernestine Warner.

Vincent Daniel.

Jamie Mai.

Steve Eisman.

3.

For what company did Ben Hockett work when he met Jamie Mai? (from Chapters 4-5)

Standard & Poor's.

Deutsche Bank.

Oppenheimer and Co.

AIG FP.

4.

The first night of the conference in Chapter 6, Steve Eisman was seated next to a man named what? (from Chapters 6-7)

Wing Chau.

Euguene Xu.

Mike Burry.

Charlie Ledley.

5.

What does the SEC refer to? (from Chapters 6-7)

Speculators and Experts Council.

Sellers and Engineers Committee.

Securities and Exchange Commission.

Special Experts Conglomerate.

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