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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bob Dall and Stephen Joseph create the first _____ of mortgage securities.
(a) Successful recall.
(b) Legislative block.
(c) Public offering.
(d) Private issue.

2. A trainee asks Horowitz about Salomon Brother's being blacklisted by whom?
(a) Canadians.
(b) Catholics.
(c) South Africans.
(d) Arabs.

3. For the author, the stigma of getting a job through connections is worse than the stigma of ______.
(a) Unemployment.
(b) Starting at the bottom.
(c) Waiting tables.
(d) Getting a PhD.

4. What floor at Salomon brothers is said to have low ceilings, no windows, and the charm of an engine room?
(a) The ground floor.
(b) The thirty-seventh floor.
(c) The forty-first floor.
(d) The fortieth floor.

5. The senior mortgage traders maintain that their abuse of trainees leads to _____.
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) More money.
(c) Lawsuits.
(d) Better workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. A trainee asks Horowitz about why the company's largest shareholder is from which country?

2. The author characterizes the bond trader as a _____.

3. Mark Smith enters the mortgage department in 1985 and is considered a _____ by the author.

4. What is it called when an interviewer asks an applicant to open a high-rise window that can't be opened in a job interview?

5. The face of Dale Horowitz reminds the author of whom?

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