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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did many of the metals traded under the radar originate?
(a) Africa.
(b) India.
(c) Israel.
(d) Iran.

2. What was the European center for the industrial trading market in the 1980s?
(a) Rome.
(b) Oslo.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

3. 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?
(a) PLCO.
(b) OPEC.
(c) NATO.
(d) NPCL.

4. Dapper Dan was the managing director of what company described in Chapter 2?
(a) Intertech Resources.
(b) Chemical Resources.
(c) Intel Resources.
(d) Metal Industrial Resources.

5. What high school did Marc Rich attend?
(a) Rhodes Preparatory School.
(b) New York Preparatory School.
(c) Wellesly Preparatory School.
(d) West Point Preparatory School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whose tutelage did Marc Rich begin working at Philipp Brothers?

2. The author writes in Chapter 6 that everyone from bellhops to brokers had similar thoughts about Marc Rich--he was effective but secretive and what?

3. Whom did Marc Rich marry, according to Chapter 5?

4. Who had recently taken power in Cuba when Rich began making business contacts there?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is written of Marc Rich's ambition and determination in Chapter 6? What was admirable about him?

2. How great an empire did Marc Rich build? How is he described by the author in Chapter 1?

3. Under whom did many of the new recruits at Philipp Brothers work? What was this individual like?

4. How was Marc Rich viewed by his contemporaries when he began in the metal industry?

5. What had happened by the evening of the rumor in Chapter 2?

6. Where and when did Marc Rich begin his career as a metal man? What was the company like?

7. With what company did Philipp Brothers merge in 1960? What was the effect of the merger?

8. What rumor spread through the trading world in 1984? Was it confirmed?

9. Who was Doug Lee? How is he described in Chapter 2?

10. Where was Marc Rich born? What was his father like?

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