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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. What sort of dogs are the favorite of the British royal family?
(a) Dachsunds.
(b) Poodles.
(c) Welsh terriers.
(d) Corgis.

2. From what school does Leonard Bublick, the trainee who gets hit in the head with a paper wad thrown by the former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, get his M.B.A.?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) Yale.
(c) Oberlin.
(d) University of Indiana.

3. On Wall Street, there is no theoretical basis for pricing a homeowner's option to _____ his loan.
(a) Refinance.
(b) Repay.
(c) Default on.
(d) Inflate.

4. A trainee asks Horowitz about Salomon Brother's being blacklisted by whom?
(a) South Africans.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Canadians.

5. Howie Rubin is picked up by which company when he is fired from Merrill Lynch?
(a) Shearson Lehman.
(b) Bear Stearns.
(c) Salomon Brothers.
(d) Drexel Burnham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the trainee who was a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot?

2. What is another name for an individual home loan?

3. In 1979, which company specializes in junk bonds?

4. Gutfreund's wife, Susan, is spending fifteen million dollars decorating his ______ apartment.

5. When Matty Olivia leaves Salomon Brothers in a huff for the joke the mortgage guys play on him, the author attributes his return to the notion that he is bound by _____.

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