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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Jim Massey is considered Gutfreund's _____.
2. Liar's Poker has a lot in common with what aspect of Wall Street business?
3. A trainee asks Horowitz about why the company's largest shareholder is from which country?
4. There are 287 books about bonds in the New York Public Library and most of them are about _____.
5. 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.?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the treasury trader king at Salomon Brothers?
2. What is the hard part of Liar's Poker?
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. How does the code of Liar's Poker affect a trader?
5. How is trading supposedly like the jungle?
6. 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?
7. Why are corporate financiers considered wimps by traders?
8. Why does Gutfreund challenge Meriwether to Liar's Poker?
9. What do the trainees have planned for the morning Gutfreund is supposed to speak to the class?
10. What is meant by "no tears"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How and why do the requirements to work at Salomon Brothers evolve? Include the backgrounds of people like Lewie Ranieri versus those of new people like Matty Olivia. How was it handled when somebody quit their job and needed to be replaced in the 1970's versus the hiring process of the mid-1980's?
Essay Topic 2
Compare the personality traits of Lewie Ranieri and Michael Milken. What is the difference between their careers in regards to their respective companies? Compare the amount of money each person made. Why did one make more money than the other?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the bonus structure for first- and second-year Salomon Brothers employees. How are their achievements considered? How does the author feel about this? What are the three emotions that all Salomon Brothers employees feel at bonus time?
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