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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 is it called when an interviewer asks an applicant to open a high-rise window that can't be opened in a job interview?
(a) Hazing.
(b) The stress interview.
(c) Exit analysis.
(d) Trapped rat syndrome.
2. Though he was rejected by Harvard, Gutfreund eventually graduated from ______.
(a) Oberlin.
(b) Yale.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Oxford.
3. In 1986, forty percent of Yale's graduating class apply to which bank?
(a) Citibank.
(b) Shearson.
(c) First Boston.
(d) Lehman Brothers.
4. 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 _____.
(a) Family obligation.
(b) Golden handcuffs.
(c) Contract.
(d) Unwritten loyalty.
5. More than any other firm on Wall Street, Salomon Brothers is run by _______.
(a) Mutual fund managers.
(b) Traders.
(c) Corporate finance.
(d) Analysts.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the author living in 1984?
2. A challenge in Liar's Poker is like saying _______.
3. Jim Massey is considered Gutfreund's _____.
4. What is the name of the trainee who was a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot?
5. According to the author, all a man has in the markets is his _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. How is trading supposedly like the jungle?
2. What happens as a result of the surge in the number of students who get economics degrees?
3. What does Lewis see as being the first inalienable right of the Salomon Brothers trainee?
4. How does a chaired professor at the London School of Economics react when the author tells him the amount he has been offered to work at Salomon Brothers?
5. What entices many people to apply to Salomon Brothers and binds them to the firm?
6. How does the equities department treat the trainees?
7. What is one of the main concerns of the old hands at Salomon Brothers concerning the state of affairs in the economics of America in the 1980s?
8. Why is a single home mortgage considered a messy investment for Wall Street?
9. What happens when the author has breakfast with Leo Corbett?
10. How does Bob Dall react when he is replaced by Ranieri?
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