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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Brotherhood of Hoods.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What floor at Salomon brothers is said to have low ceilings, no windows, and the charm of an engine room?
(a) The ground floor.
(b) The thirty-seventh floor.
(c) The forty-first floor.
(d) The fortieth floor.

2. Bond prices move _____ to interest rates after 1979.
(a) Inversely.
(b) Cyclically.
(c) Parallel.
(d) Unrelated.

3. Which department at Salomon Brothers is considered "the sleepy backwater"?
(a) Bond trading.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Equities.
(d) Corprate finance.

4. Rich Shuster is a thrift salesman in which Salomon Brothers office before coming to work for Ranieri?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Chicago.
(c) London.
(d) Atlanta.

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) Rome.
(c) Prague.
(d) Montreal.

Short Answer Questions

1. People who do imitations of Michael Mortara often sound like _____.

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.

3. Jim Massey is considered Gutfreund's _____.

4. What is another word for savings and loan?

5. According to the author, in order for the home mortgage to become a bond, it has to be _____.

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