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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 7 that Rich was well aware that the executives where had no idea what went into making these huge oil deals?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Oslo.

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

3. How many months of appeals ensued after Rich refused to turn over his Swiss files in Chapter 16?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

4. How much money did Marc Rich make in his first year in his new business in Chapter 9?
(a) $5 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $20 million.
(d) $14 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 5 that being advanced at trading merely required the ability to tame the furies of what?

2. What is the name of an oil cartel of twelve developing countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela?

3. How many of the forty sought-after metals were traded openly?

4. Arab members of OPEC alarmed the world when they used the "oil weapon" during the Yom Kippur War by implementing oil embargoes and initiating an oil crisis in what year?

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

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