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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After 15 years at the helm, the Philipps brothers' cousin and who were responsible for elevating Philipp Brothers to a powerful international trading force?
(a) Pincus Green.
(b) Marc Rich.
(c) Siegfried Ullman.
(d) Edmond Mantell.

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

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

4. What publicly owned company did Philipp Brothers merge with in Chapter 5?
(a) Intertech Resources.
(b) Entergy Corporation.
(c) Metals and Chemicals Corporation.
(d) Minerals & Chemicals Corporation.

5. Where was Marc Rich exiled after his legal troubles in the United States?
(a) Spain.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) France.
(d) Norway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Philipp Brothers establish a firm it was miraculously able to keep alive during World War I?

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

3. In what year did Marc Rich begin his career as a metal man?

4. Traders of what trading company were busted by the FBI in 1981?

5. The rumor from Chapter 2 began circulating where?

(see the answer key)

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