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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The Outsourced Highway - Wealth Funds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In December 2008, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced that he had leased out the city's parking meters for how long?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 75 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 50 years.

2. Richard Nixon had capitalized on the "forgotten Americans." The push to gain these voters was known as________.
(a) The "silent strategy."
(b) The Tea Party.
(c) The "southern cooperative."
(d) The "southern strategy."

3. Of what descent was Alan Greenspan's father?
(a) Hungarian-Jewish.
(b) Romanian-Jewish.
(c) Russian-Jewish.
(d) Middle Eastern.

4. The Commodity Exchange Act was established under whose administration?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Gerald Ford.

5. Since 2002, Deutsche Bank's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Executive Committee has been __________.
(a) Jan Leys.
(b) Josef Ackermann.
(c) Michel Slosovik.
(d) Joel Hosey.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alan Greenspan born?

2. When did Lehman Brothers declare bankruptcy?

3. 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?

4. When did the Yom Kippur War begin?

5. The author was astonished to learn that a port in what state was on the block for sale?

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