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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vice did Marc Rich pick up after becoming manager of the Madrid office for Philipp Brothers?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Heroin use.
(d) Drinking.

2. What metal did Marc Rich first begin trading at Philipp Brothers?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Aluminum.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

3. Marc Rich's family moved to the U.S. from fear of what?
(a) The Spanish Civil War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Fascist Regime.
(d) The Nazi Regime.

4. In what year was the U.S. dollar no longer backed by gold?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1973.

5. Where was Marc Rich born?
(a) New York, U.S.
(b) Antwerp, Belgium.
(c) Oslo, Norway.
(d) London, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many top traders left with Rich and Pinky who had begun their own business in Chapter 7?

2. Under what master mover of the precious metals did many of the new recruits work under the tutelage of at Philipp Brothers?

3. 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?

4. The oil-producing nations were ____ to unload their gluts of oil on Rich, according to the author in Chapter 7.

5. Where was Marc Rich exiled after his legal troubles in the United States?

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