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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What practice eventually cripples Salomon Brothers?
(a) Top heaviness.
(b) Overextension.
(c) Hypergrowth.
(d) Laziness.

2. What is the name of an interview technique designed to test an applicant's nerve?
(a) The yell test.
(b) Direct humiliation.
(c) Instant recall command.
(d) The silent treatment.

3. As Lewis observes people in his firm, he finds that just as some people are mean drunks, mortgage traders are mean _____.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Gluttons.
(c) Parents.
(d) Dogs.

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

5. What does Lewis Identify as the two emotions that commonly destroy traders?
(a) Self-loathing and listlessness.
(b) Drive and determination.
(c) Apathy and sadness.
(d) Fear and greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes England as the land of ________.

2. William Simon becomes the secretary of the U.S. Treasury under which president?

3. Where was the author born and raised?

4. A trainee asks Horowitz about Salomon Brother's being blacklisted by whom?

5. Who is chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the training class, why does Lewis think Gutfreund looks the part of statesman?

2. What happens when the author has breakfast with Leo Corbett?

3. How does Meriwether beat Gutfreund before the game of Liar's Poker even starts?

4. What effect does allowing the back row of the Salomon Brothers training program to create anarchy have on the company?

5. What does Lewis see as being the first inalienable right of the Salomon Brothers trainee?

6. How does the code of Liar's Poker affect a trader?

7. What do the trainees have planned for the morning Gutfreund is supposed to speak to the class?

8. How does Bob Dall react when he is replaced by Ranieri?

9. Why does Gutfreund challenge Meriwether to Liar's Poker?

10. What is meant by "no tears"?

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