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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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 was being sold, but was in short supply and not physically accessible in Chapter 2?

3. What distant cousin of the Philipp Brothers was dispatched to help run the U.S. offices?

4. What is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the scam and rumor in Chapter 2? Who was responsible for it?

2. How does the author describe the industrial trading world of 1984 in Chapter 1?

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

4. What was in great demand in Chapter 2? What were the results?

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

6. How was Marc Rich described by those who knew him in Chapter 6?

7. Why does the author state the Metal Men never lost in Chapter 1?

8. Where did Jesselson send Marc Rich in Chapter 5? What did he learn there?

9. When did Rich become the manager of the Madrid office at Philipp Brothers? How was he described in this position?

10. What were international trading regulations like in the metal industry during the period in which the book is set?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the figure of Ludwig Jesselson. What was Jesselson's position at Philipp Brothers? How did Jesselson feel about Marc Rich?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the metal trading industry as it was illustrated by the author in the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Metal Men: Marc Rich and the 10-billion-dollar Scam. Where was the industry headquartered? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What rumor circulated the trading industry in 1984? What effect did it have on the global economy? Who was responsible for originating the rumor?

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