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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 5 that during Jesselson's tenure at Philipp Brothers there was no need for buy-outs or what?
(a) Bailouts.
(b) Golden parachutes.
(c) Freedom parades.
(d) Government regulation.

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

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

4. Dapper Dan was the managing director of what company described in Chapter 2?
(a) Metal Industrial Resources.
(b) Intertech Resources.
(c) Chemical Resources.
(d) Intel Resources.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What company had Marc Rich begun working at immediately after dropping out of college?

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?

3. After 15 years at the helm, the Philipps brothers' cousin and who were responsible for elevating Philipp Brothers to a powerful international trading force?

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

5. What metal did Marc Rich first begin trading at Philipp Brothers?

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