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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through From Geek to Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Testing sites.
(b) Paper evaluations.
(c) The break room surveillance cameras.
(d) The job placement blackboard.

2. Who is chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979?
(a) Arthur F. Burns.
(b) Alan Greenspan.
(c) Ben Bernanke.
(d) Paul Volcker.

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

4. Which company becomes Salomon Brothers' biggest competitor soon after mortgage trading becomes a viable investment entity?
(a) Drexel Burnham.
(b) Goldman Sachs.
(c) First Boston.
(d) Merril Lynch.

5. Jim Massey is considered Gutfreund's _____.
(a) Arch enemy.
(b) Hatchet man.
(c) Prodigal son.
(d) Confidante.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which subway line drops off hoards of people to their Wall Street jobs?

2. Lewie Ranieri is doing what when he is called in by Gutfreund to take over the mortgage department?

3. How much debt does the savings and loan companies seem to want to sell in 1981?

4. What fund goes from zero investment in the mortgage market in 1983 to thirty billion dollars worth of CMOs in 1986?

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

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