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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. When was Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History published?
(a) September, 2008.
(b) December, 2009.
(c) October, 2009.
(d) September, 2011.

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

3. Eljon Williams contacted what firm to help him get a home loan with a fixed mortgage?
(a) Goldman-Sachs.
(b) Solomon Edwards.
(c) Merrill Lynch.
(d) Wachovia.

4. Who negotiated an Israel withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula as well as an end to the oil embargo by OPEC?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) James Edwards.

5. In 1991, Goldman-Sachs bought up a commodities trading company called ________.
(a) Chase Bank.
(b) Wachovia.
(c) J. Aron.
(d) Solomon Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it?

2. The Tea Party movement is an American populist political movement that has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?

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

4. What refers to the part of the capital markets that deals with the issuance of new securities?

5. When was Ayn Rand born?

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