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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Art of War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which company becomes Salomon Brothers' biggest competitor soon after mortgage trading becomes a viable investment entity?
(a) Merril Lynch.
(b) Goldman Sachs.
(c) First Boston.
(d) Drexel Burnham.

2. The author describes England as the land of ________.
(a) Haggis.
(b) Limp paychecks.
(c) Long lines.
(d) Royal watchers.

3. Steve Roth and Scott Brittenham make millions of dollars trading _____.
(a) Corporate bonds.
(b) Federal project loans.
(c) Small Business Administration loans.
(d) Junk securities.

4. How much debt does the savings and loan companies seem to want to sell in 1981?
(a) One trillion dollars.
(b) Fifty billion dollars.
(c) Zero.
(d) One billion dollars.

5. According to the author, the whole idea of globalization at Salomon Brothers is _____.
(a) A given.
(b) A canard.
(c) Somewhat realisitic.
(d) A relief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which leading bond analyst from Salomon Brothers gives a speech at the Wharton School about how he can't get women to pay attention to him at cocktail parties?

2. Though he was rejected by Harvard, Gutfreund eventually graduated from ______.

3. According to one mortgage trader, it is an accepted fact that mortgage traders have _____.

4. There are 287 books about bonds in the New York Public Library and most of them are about _____.

5. Which country's interest rate is part of the deal for which "the opportunist" steals credit?

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