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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. Kissinger served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under which President?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) George W. Bush.

2. In what year did President Nixon decide to rearm the Israelis, angering the oil-producing Arab states?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1978.

3. In Chapter 3, what process in which loans are split up and sold off to secondary investors as securities was used by banks?
(a) Derivatives.
(b) Securitization.
(c) Amortization.
(d) Authorization.

4. Where did Matt Taibbi hear Sarah Palin's acceptance speech in Chapter 1?
(a) The Xcel Center in St. Paul, MN.
(b) The Hewlitt Packard Center, San Jose, CA.
(c) Wall Street, New York, NY.
(d) The Superdome, New Orleans, LA.

5. Who was Vice President to Richard Nixon?
(a) George H. Bush.
(b) Spiro Agnew.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Lyndon Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alan Greenspan was born in what area of New York City?

2. Nancy Pelosi served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to ______.

3. Where are the headquarters of Deutsche Bank?

4. When did the Yom Kippur War end?

5. The protagonist of The Fountainhead is in what profession?

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