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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. Where was the author born and raised?
2. What dollar amount does Meriwether counter Gutfreund's bet with?
3. In 1986, forty percent of Yale's graduating class apply to which bank?
4. What aspect of the dollar bill is the integral component of Liar's Poker?
5. What sort of important dinner is the author invited to attend?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the author has breakfast with Leo Corbett?
2. What is the "3-6-3 Club"?
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. How does the author compare economics to art history?
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. Why does Gutfreund challenge Meriwether to Liar's Poker?
8. How does the equities department treat the trainees?
9. Why is the treasury trader king at Salomon Brothers?
10. What happens as a result of the surge in the number of students who get economics degrees?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the change that took place in the bond market in the 1980s. What event took place in 1979 to affect this change? Who was involved? How did the change affect people's perception of bonds? How did Salomon Brothers make money at bonds?
Essay Topic 2
How does the Glass-Steagall Act of 1934 cleave the banking industry in two? What two sectors of banking are created as a result of the act? What functions do these two sectors serve? How are the two sectors of banking perceived by the author?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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