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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Salomon Diet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A trainee asks Horowitz about why the company's largest shareholder is from which country?
(a) Australia.
(b) Israel.
(c) Jordan.
(d) South Africa.

2. Though he was rejected by Harvard, Gutfreund eventually graduated from ______.
(a) Oxford.
(b) Oberlin.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

3. The author thinks that all money men either have ______ hair or are bald.
(a) Dark.
(b) Red.
(c) Receding.
(d) Blond.

4. CMO's are divided into slices, or _____.
(a) Branches.
(b) Compartments.
(c) Departments.
(d) Tranches.

5. The market settles on a fair value of CMOs by comparing them with corporate and _____ bonds.
(a) Municipal.
(b) Junk.
(c) School.
(d) Treasury.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Simon becomes the secretary of the U.S. Treasury under which president?

2. Howie Rubin is picked up by which company when he is fired from Merrill Lynch?

3. What spins out of control at Salomon Brothers in 1987?

4. People who do imitations of Michael Mortara often sound like _____.

5. Where is the author living in 1984?

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