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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. According to the author, state taxes were at a five-year low when oil prices surged to how much a barrel?
(a) $200.
(b) $140.
(c) $149.
(d) $100.

2. 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) Rolling Stone.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Wall Street Journal.
(d) Men's Journal.

3. In international relations, what refers to a re-establishment of cordial relations, as between two countries?
(a) Rapprochement.
(b) Encroachment.
(c) Breach of Contract.
(d) Reinactment.

4. When was Alan Greenspan born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1953.

5. What refers to a public entity for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price?
(a) Bond market.
(b) Capital market.
(c) Stock market.
(d) Treasury market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alan Greenspan joined the Richard Nixon campaign in what year?

2. According to the author, __________ and other investment banks were responsible for driving up the price of oil through the commodities speculation market.

3. Where was Robert Lukens being hit with gas expenses that were suddenly doubling, as described in Chapter 4?

4. In Atlas Shrugged, a group of men break off on their own and form __________.

5. In what year did Alan Greenspan tell Congress that the risk involved in derivatives was "negligible"?

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