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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Crazy.
(b) Spontaneous.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) A gambler.

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

3. In what year was Marc Rich born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1919.

4. The rumor from Chapter 2 began circulating where?
(a) New York.
(b) Oslo.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

5. What high school did Marc Rich attend?
(a) West Point Preparatory School.
(b) New York Preparatory School.
(c) Rhodes Preparatory School.
(d) Wellesly Preparatory School.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What distant cousin of the Philipp Brothers was dispatched to help run the U.S. offices?

3. When was Philipp Brothers founded?

4. What was being sold, but was in short supply and not physically accessible in Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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