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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. What are created when banks split their mortgage loan payments into three levels and sell them in separate packages?
(a) Derivatives.
(b) Collectives.
(c) Tranch blocks.
(d) Incidentals.

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

3. Where was Barack Obama born?
(a) Bern, Switzerland.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Honolulu, Hawaii.
(d) New York, New York.

4. When did John McCain marry Carol Shepp?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1975.

5. T-Bills mature in what time?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 5 years or more.
(c) 10 years or less.
(d) 1 year or less.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what state was Scott Brown elected Senator?

3. Where are the headquarters of Deutsche Bank?

4. Where was Ayn Rand born?

5. During the Yom Kippur War, Syria and Egypt attacked territories Israel had captured in what war?

(see the answer key)

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