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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 sort of important dinner is the author invited to attend?
(a) A celebrity dinner.
(b) A head-hunting dinner.
(c) A company dinner for Salomon Brothers.
(d) A fund raiser.

2. What floor at Salomon brothers is said to have low ceilings, no windows, and the charm of an engine room?
(a) The ground floor.
(b) The fortieth floor.
(c) The thirty-seventh floor.
(d) The forty-first floor.

3. 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.
(a) Politeness.
(b) A college degree.
(c) Making plans.
(d) Economic theory.

4. In 1986, forty percent of Yale's graduating class apply to which bank?
(a) Citibank.
(b) First Boston.
(c) Shearson.
(d) Lehman Brothers.

5. What dollar amount does Meriwether counter Gutfreund's bet with?
(a) Ten million dollars.
(b) Two dollars.
(c) Forty-one thousand dollars.
(d) A quarter of a million dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which leading bond analyst from Salomon Brothers gives a speech at the Wharton School about how he can't get women to pay attention to him at cocktail parties?

2. By definition, an analyst's job lasts how long?

3. According to the author, the reason Wall Street has initially ignored his resume is that all the representatives from large firms say that he lacks ______.

4. What is another name for an analyst in the corporate finance department at Salomon Brothers?

5. Traders prove their superiority in a Wall Street firm every day by doing what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is meant by "no tears"?

3. The author uses the analogy of two benevolent hands that "stuff the turkey" that Wall Street firms eat the stuffing from. What does he mean by this?

4. Why does the author pounce on the opportunity to work for Salomon Brothers like a loose ball?

5. Why is Lewie Ranieri so loyal to Salomon Brothers?

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

7. Describe the home-buying imbalance of the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt.

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

9. 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?

10. How is trading supposedly like the jungle?

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