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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. There are 287 books about bonds in the New York Public Library and most of them are about _____.
(a) A British spy.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Junk Bonds.
(d) Family ties.

2. Where is the author living in 1984?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Omaha.
(d) New York.

3. What is it called when a trader offloads bonds down a customer's throat for the company's benefit?
(a) Jamming.
(b) Cramming.
(c) Slamming.
(d) Ramming.

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

5. The author thinks that all money men either have ______ hair or are bald.
(a) Blond.
(b) Receding.
(c) Red.
(d) Dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. More than any other firm on Wall Street, Salomon Brothers is run by _______.

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. The Japanese in the training program are considered _____.

4. The author characterizes the people initially involved in home mortgages as ______.

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

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