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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Learning to Love Your Corporate Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gutfreund's challenging of Meriwether to a game of Liar's Poker is his way of showing he is ______.
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Boss.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) A player.

2. Traders prove their superiority in a Wall Street firm every day by doing what?
(a) Taking long lunches.
(b) Managing trainees.
(c) Handling risk.
(d) Destroying companies.

3. There are 287 books about bonds in the New York Public Library and most of them are about _____.
(a) Junk Bonds.
(b) Family ties.
(c) A British spy.
(d) Chemistry.

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

5. With whom has the author received an invitation to dine?
(a) Lady Diana.
(b) Queen Elizabeth II.
(c) The queen mother.
(d) Prince Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In any market, as in any poker game, there is a ______.

2. Who is chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979?

3. As Lewis gets more experience at Salomon Brothers, he realizes that an inexplicable aspect of studying to be an investment banker is that _______ serves no function in an investment bank.

4. Which publication calls John Gutfreund the "King of Wall Street"?

5. What practice eventually cripples Salomon Brothers?

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