View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was in the greatest demand following the circulation of the rumor in Chapter 2?
(a) Copper and aluminum.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Silver and uranium.
(d) Copper and gold.

3. Where was the Vice President of the United States in Chapter 2?
(a) Israel.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Great Britain.

4. 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?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1984.

5. Where did many of the metals traded under the radar originate?
(a) Israel.
(b) Africa.
(c) India.
(d) Iran.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of the forty sought-after metals were traded openly?

3. What high school did Marc Rich attend?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 207 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample