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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 silver?
(a) Ag.
(b) Sl.
(c) Si.
(d) Au.

2. The author writes in Chapter 5 that being advanced at trading merely required the ability to tame the furies of what?
(a) Customers.
(b) Bank loan executives.
(c) Federal marshals.
(d) The dynamic markets.

3. What individual in Chapter 2 was also known as Dapper Dan?
(a) Doug Lee.
(b) David Duncan.
(c) Andrew Warner.
(d) James Lee.

4. What distant cousin of the Philipp Brothers was dispatched to help run the U.S. offices?
(a) Pincus Green.
(b) Edmond Mantell.
(c) Marc Rich.
(d) Ludwig Jesselson.

5. Traders at Philipp Brothers were trained to move how in their dealings?
(a) Fast.
(b) Cautiously.
(c) Deliberately.
(d) Meticulously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marc Rich's family moved to the U.S. from fear of what?

2. What is the chemical symbol for gold?`

3. In what year was there a growing awareness of the creeping power of the Ronald Reagan dollar, which was gaining fiscal strength over European currencies?

4. In Chapter 2, a rumor circulated that who had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage?

5. The rumor from Chapter 2 began circulating where?

(see the answer key)

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