View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is photocopied 126 times from The New York Times and distributed among the trainees each morning?
(a) The business section.
(b) The front page.
(c) The crossword puzzle.
(d) The comic section.

2. Which subway line drops off hoards of people to their Wall Street jobs?
(a) Belmont.
(b) Morris Heights.
(c) Lexington Avenue.
(d) Bedford Park.

3. Ranieri says Bill Voute always has a _____.
(a) Political agenda.
(b) Biting wit.
(c) Need to pick at people.
(d) Sportscar image.

4. 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) University of Indiana.
(c) Yale.
(d) Oberlin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The cafeteria kitchen at Salomon Brothers is known throughout Wall Street for its _____.

3. The author observes that Strauss doesn't seem to like Ranieri's lack of _____.

4. Drexel Burnham runs an ad in the Wall Street journal showing two men _____.

5. The author characterizes the people initially involved in home mortgages as ______.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 221 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample