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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 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) Wealthy.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Spontaneous.
(d) A gambler.

2. The price of silver rose how many cents an ounce following the rumor in Chapter 2?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

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

4. The author writes in Chapter 5 that Jesselson's tenure at Philipp Brothers was during an era when relationships were forged by trust, not by what?
(a) Backstabbing.
(b) Greed.
(c) Money.
(d) Corporate lawyers.

5. Marc Rich's new father-in-law in Chapter 5 was the chairman of what company?
(a) Goldman Sachs.
(b) Desco, Inc.
(c) Bernlieb, Liebhard, and Watson.
(d) Keds, Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Philipp Brothers founded?

2. The scam which drove the rumor in Chapter 2 was intended to raise the prices of what?

3. What does the author write that investors were not aware that every industry in the world was driven by in Chapter 1?

4. Where had there been no official release of the news 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?

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