Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Matt Taibbi
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Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Matt Taibbi
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Where are the headquarters of Deutsche Bank?
(a) Bern, Switzerland.
(b) Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(c) Oslo, Norway.
(d) Frankfurt, Germany.

2. The Tea Party movement is an American populist political movement that has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2008.

3. What NBC correspondent did Alan Greenspan marry?
(a) Andrea Mitchell.
(b) Jane Pauley.
(c) Michelle Kimble.
(d) Alexis Marcantel.

4. Alan Greenspan was born in what area of New York City?
(a) Washington Heights.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) The Upper East Side.
(d) Astoria, Queens.

5. The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was based in what US city?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. In international relations, what refers to a re-establishment of cordial relations, as between two countries?

2. Where did Alan Greenspan study clarinet from 1943 to 1944?

3. What refers to a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation?

4. Alan Greenspan recommended the Reagan era increase in Social Security tax, and the rate went from 9.35% to ___________.

5. In Chapter 3, what fee did companies that would attach a borrower's name to the credit score of another person who was more credit worthy charge?

(see the answer key)

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