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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. When did the price of oil that Rich bought from the Iranians reach a profitable margin in Chapter 7?
(a) By the end of the week.
(b) By the end of two years.
(c) By the end of the month.
(d) By the end of the year.

2. Where is sixty-five percent of the world's cobalt mined?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Brazil.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Zaire.

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

4. The trading community admired Rich because he was able to get around many what that stood in the way of many countries and their corporations?
(a) Rules and regulations.
(b) Reluctant buyers.
(c) Market crashes.
(d) Reluctant sellers.

5. How much money did Marc Rich earn per week when he started working at Philipp Brothers?
(a) $60.
(b) $500.
(c) $200.
(d) $100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Weinberg estimated that Rich owed in excess of how much money in back taxes in Chapter 16?

2. By the end of the year in Chapter 16, Marc Rich had how many assets frozen by the U.S. government?

3. Robbie Lichtenstern was Rich's chief of what?

4. In what year did Rich find himself badly in need of a tax shelter in Chapter 11?

5. Where had one of Marc Rich's chief officers been found murdered in Chapter 13?

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