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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of important dinner is the author invited to attend?
(a) A company dinner for Salomon Brothers.
(b) A celebrity dinner.
(c) A head-hunting dinner.
(d) A fund raiser.

2. From what school does Leonard Bublick, the trainee who gets hit in the head with a paper wad thrown by the former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, get his M.B.A.?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) Oberlin.
(c) Yale.
(d) University of Indiana.

3. Ranieri describes Tom Strauss as _____.
(a) A clown.
(b) A boob.
(c) A rabid dog.
(d) A snake.

4. A _____ of personal popularity is how Lewis thinks trainees are chosen by managers.
(a) Grand illusion.
(b) Cult.
(c) Ponzi scheme.
(d) Bee's nest.

5. Where does the important dinner that the author is invited to take place?
(a) Tintagel.
(b) Cornwall.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) St. James Palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis states that analysts don't analyze anything; they are just _____ to corporate financiers.

2. The market settles on a fair value of CMOs by comparing them with corporate and _____ bonds.

3. Jim Massey is considered Gutfreund's _____.

4. In 1979, which company specializes in junk bonds?

5. What fund goes from zero investment in the mortgage market in 1983 to thirty billion dollars worth of CMOs in 1986?

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