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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. A trainee asks Horowitz about why the company's largest shareholder is from which country?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Israel.
(d) Australia.

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

4. Lewis sees John Meriwether as successful because he has the uncanny ability to do what?
(a) Hide money.
(b) Avoid bad press.
(c) Hide his state of mind.
(d) Time his trades.

5. The trainee who finally asks a question at Massey's training session wonders if Salomon Brothers will open an office in what city?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Prague.
(c) Montreal.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. The code of Liar's Poker is something like the code of the ______.

4. Liar's Poker has a lot in common with what aspect of Wall Street business?

5. 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.

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