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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. How many of the forty sought-after metals were traded openly?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.
2. Under whose tutelage did Marc Rich begin working at Philipp Brothers?
(a) Fishman's.
(b) Jesselson's.
(c) Rothchild's.
(d) Newman's.
3. What individual in Chapter 2 was also known as Dapper Dan?
(a) David Duncan.
(b) Doug Lee.
(c) James Lee.
(d) Andrew Warner.
4. In what year did Marc Rich marry, according to Chapter 5?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1977.
5. What did Rich trade with the Cubans in Chapter 5?
(a) Nickel and copper.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Nickel and mercury.
(d) Aluminum and silver.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year does the author write in Chapter 6 that oil prices began to dictate market value?
2. How much money did Marc Rich earn per week when he started working at Philipp Brothers?
3. What happened with Philipp Brothers' profits after their merger in Chapter 5?
4. In what year was there a growing awareness of the creeping power of the Ronald Reagan dollar, which was gaining fiscal strength over European currencies?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How many metals were openly traded? Where did others come from?
2. What were international trading regulations like in the metal industry during the period in which the book is set?
3. Where and when did Marc Rich begin his career as a metal man? What was the company like?
4. What does the author write of the atmosphere at Philipp Brothers when Marc Rich began there? How was the market different from today?
5. Under whom did many of the new recruits at Philipp Brothers work? What was this individual like?
6. Who was Doug Lee? How is he described in Chapter 2?
7. Where did Jesselson send Marc Rich in Chapter 5? What did he learn there?
8. Where was Marc Rich born? What was his father like?
9. What happened with banking following the merger with Engelhard in Chapter 6? How did this affect Rich?
10. Describe Marc Rich's wedding in Chapter 5. To whom and when did he marry? How was the wedding described?
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