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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, a rumor circulated that who had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Margaret Thatcher.
(d) The Pope.

2. The author writes that in the geographical location of Europe, one could buy a metal for one dollar from a Far Eastern customer and sell it for how much to a North American customer before the day ended?
(a) $1.50.
(b) $5.
(c) $2.
(d) $3.

3. The author writes in Chapter 5 that Jesselson's tenure at Philipp Brothers was during an era when relationships were forged by trust, not by what?
(a) Backstabbing.
(b) Corporate lawyers.
(c) Greed.
(d) Money.

4. How many of the forty sought-after metals were traded openly?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 15.

5. Traders of what trading company were busted by the FBI in 1981?
(a) Entergy Incorporated.
(b) Intertech Resources, Inc.
(c) Chemical Resources, Inc.
(d) Mineral Resources, Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the European center for the industrial trading market in the 1980s?

2. Where did Marc Rich buy a luxury restaurant?

3. Where had there been no official release of the news of the rumor in Chapter 2?

4. When did Marc Rich's family move to the United States?

5. Where did Philipp Brothers establish a firm it was miraculously able to keep alive during World War I?

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