Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Michael Lewis (author)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Michael Lewis (author)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Wall Street has a river at one end and a ______ at the other.
(a) Graveyard.
(b) Cesspool.
(c) Train station.
(d) Pot of gold.

2. 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.
(a) A college degree.
(b) Making plans.
(c) Economic theory.
(d) Politeness.

3. What sort of dogs are the favorite of the British royal family?
(a) Dachsunds.
(b) Corgis.
(c) Welsh terriers.
(d) Poodles.

4. What dollar amount does Meriwether counter Gutfreund's bet with?
(a) Forty-one thousand dollars.
(b) Ten million dollars.
(c) Two dollars.
(d) A quarter of a million dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A _____ of personal popularity is how Lewis thinks trainees are chosen by managers.

2. The back row trainees at Solomon Brothers are victims of the myth that a trader is a _____.

3. A challenge in Liar's Poker is like saying _______.

4. Gutfreund's wife, Susan, is spending fifteen million dollars decorating his ______ apartment.

5. For a great player of Liar's Poker, ______ is the easy part of the game.

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