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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the chemical symbol for gold?`
(a) Gl.
(b) Go.
(c) Ag.
(d) Au.

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

3. What was the European center for the industrial trading market in the 1980s?
(a) Oslo.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) London.

4. Where did Philipp Brothers establish a firm it was miraculously able to keep alive during World War I?
(a) London.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Oslo.
(d) Paris.

5. What metal did Marc Rich first begin trading at Philipp Brothers?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Aluminum.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dapper Dan was the managing director of what company described in Chapter 2?

2. Where did Marc Rich's family settle in the United States?

3. From where had orders been given which led to the origin of the rumor in Chapter 2?

4. What happened to trading following the circulation of the rumor in Chapter 2?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5 that being advanced at trading merely required the ability to tame the furies of what?

(see the answer key)

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