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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When Bad Things Happen to Rich People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pet name that bond traders give to the corporate finance department is _____.
(a) Twenty Mule Team.
(b) The Who.
(c) Team Xerox.
(d) The Cleveland Browns.

2. Investment banking in America is a long-standing _____.
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Partnership.
(d) Oligopoly.

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

4. In Salomon Brothers: Advance to Leadership, Gutfreund is cast as what type of figure?
(a) A Churchill.
(b) An Isaiah.
(c) A de Gaulle.
(d) A messiah.

5. CMO's are divided into slices, or _____.
(a) Departments.
(b) Tranches.
(c) Branches.
(d) Compartments.

Short Answer Questions

1. A challenge in Liar's Poker is like saying _______.

2. What is the day of the week that the stock market crashes in 1987?

3. What is a short-term loan called like the one that Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs extends to the Southland Corporation so that management can buy out the company?

4. What is Latin for "buyer beware"?

5. The "golden handshake" is another phrase for _____.

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