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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Trillion-dollar Band-Aid - Health Care Refor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what magazine was Matt Taibbi working as a reporter when he describes having listened to the acceptance speech of Sarah Palin in Chapter 1?
(a) Men's Journal.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Wall Street Journal.
(d) The New Yorker.

2. What refers to a form of government in which engineers, scientists, health professionals, and other technical experts are in control of decision making in their respective fields?
(a) Plurocracy.
(b) Technocracy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Socialist democracy.

3. When was Atlas Shrugged published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1948.

4. Where are the headquarters of Deutsche Bank?
(a) Frankfurt, Germany.
(b) Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(c) Oslo, Norway.
(d) Bern, Switzerland.

5. When was Ayn Rand born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. During which President's administration did the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission allow Wall Street speculation to be recognized as "bona fide hedging"?

2. Eljon Williams had what profession?

3. During his economic studies, Alan Greenspan worked under Eugene Banks, a managing director at what Wall Street investment bank?

4. What occupation did Barack Obama have before earning his law degree?

5. Where was Ayn Rand born?

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