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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. In 1979, which company specializes in junk bonds?
2. Rich Shuster is a thrift salesman in which Salomon Brothers office before coming to work for Ranieri?
3. According to the book, investment banking candidates are expected to be _______.
4. The back row trainees at Solomon Brothers are victims of the myth that a trader is a _____.
5. In the bond market, unlike the stock market, ______ are not openly stated.
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the code of Liar's Poker affect a trader?
2. How does the author manage to get a connection into Salomon Brothers?
3. 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?
4. What happens when the author has breakfast with Leo Corbett?
5. What effect does allowing the back row of the Salomon Brothers training program to create anarchy have on the company?
6. 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?
7. What is the hard part of Liar's Poker?
8. Why does Gutfreund challenge Meriwether to Liar's Poker?
9. What happens as a result of the surge in the number of students who get economics degrees?
10. Describe the home-buying imbalance of the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe the deal that the author and Alexander create on the security they invent involving German interest rates. How does the "the opportunist" offer to help them? How does "the opportunist" try to take credit for their idea? How does the author retaliate and what is the final outcome of the situation?
Essay Topic 3
What is the perception of "corporate finance" in the investment banking industry? What does someone in corporate finance actually do? What role does and investment banking analyst play in relation to corporate financiers?
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