1. What company had Marc Rich begun working at immediately after dropping out of college?
(a) Philipp Brothers.
(b) Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
(c) Clarendon Limited.
(d) Glencore International AG.

2. Where did Marc Rich buy a luxury restaurant?
(a) New York.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Paris.
(d) Switzerland.

3. What happened to the U.S. dollar in trading following the rumor's circulation in Chapter 2?
(a) It began to drop.
(b) It began to rise.
(c) It held steady.
(d) It surged dramatically.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes in Chapter 1 that metal trading was a shadowy world in which huge amounts of money were traded and, to play in that arena, one had to be "extremely smart, stupid or " what?

2. What is the chemical symbol for gold?`

3. The scam which drove the rumor in Chapter 2 was intended to raise the prices of what?

4. In what year did Marc Rich marry, according to Chapter 5?

5. When was Philipp Brothers founded?

(see the answer key)

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