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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Beginnings.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bad investment did Warren make at this time?
(a) Dempster.
(b) purchasing a house.
(c) National American.
(d) Blue Eagle stamps.

2. Warren's father worked as a ___________.
(a) grocer.
(b) securities salesman.
(c) farmer.
(d) factory worker.

3. In their senior year, Warren and Danley opened a:
(a) courier service.
(b) pinball machine business.
(c) magazine clipping service.
(d) stock quote business.

4. What did Warren do with some of the profits from his paper route?
(a) vacationed in Miami.
(b) bought a car.
(c) bought AT&T stock.
(d) bought forty acres of Nebraska farmland.

5. Which of the following was not some thing that Howard Buffett was against?
(a) European grain exports.
(b) protecting US savings bond owners against inflation.
(c) the Bretton Woods monetary scheme.
(d) school lunch programs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Graham and Dodds did work in:

2. Warren married Susie Thompson in:

3. Warren purchased his first stocks at the age of:

4. What did Warren always wear in high school?

5. Why did the Buffetts move to New York in 1954?

(see the answer key)

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