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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

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) Marc Rich.
(b) Siegfried Ullman.
(c) Edmond Mantell.
(d) Pincus Green.

2. What term does the author use in Chapter 5 to refer to young traders like Marc Rich who were trained in-house and considered the leaders of tomorrow?
(a) Philipp Sons.
(b) Heavy Metal Men.
(c) Lehrlings.
(d) Jesselsonlings.

3. What were the personalities of the traders related to in Chapter 1?
(a) Rogues.
(b) Cowboys.
(c) Terrorists.
(d) Anarchists.

4. What does the author write that investors were not aware that every industry in the world was driven by in Chapter 1?
(a) Politics.
(b) Oil.
(c) Metal.
(d) Greed.

5. 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?
(a) $2.
(b) $1.50.
(c) $5.
(d) $3.

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. The author writes in Chapter 6 that solid relationships with what were essential in the trading world?

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

5. What vice did Marc Rich pick up after becoming manager of the Madrid office for Philipp Brothers?

(see the answer key)

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