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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adult Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name stockbrokers give to the day in 1976 when fixed stock brokerage commissions ended?
(a) Blue Monday.
(b) Black Friday.
(c) A green Christmas.
(d) Mayday.

2. For a great player of Liar's Poker, ______ is the easy part of the game.
(a) Lying.
(b) Science.
(c) Reading people.
(d) Math.

3. What aspect of the dollar bill is the integral component of Liar's Poker?
(a) The year.
(b) The serial number.
(c) The owner.
(d) The mint.

4. Jim Massey is a member of Salomon Brothers executive committee in charge of sales and presides over _____, which directly affects the future of all trainees.
(a) Paper evaluations.
(b) The break room surveillance cameras.
(c) The job placement blackboard.
(d) Testing sites.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Japanese in the training program are considered _____.

2. What is a phrase the author uses to describe Meriwether's value to Salomon Brothers?

3. Gutfreund's challenging of Meriwether to a game of Liar's Poker is his way of showing he is ______.

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

5. The front-row people in the Salomon Brothers training program are generally from which business school?

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