View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At DLJ, what was the holiday party considered to be?
(a) Associates could choose if they wanted to attend or not.
(b) An event that significant others could also attend.
(c) Not that much fun.
(d) Most important social event of the year.

2. What do Troob and Rolfe suggest that business school failed to teach the graduates?
(a) How to work with other people.
(b) That they would be spending a lot of time in a copy center.
(c) How to bribe people.
(d) How to compromise.

3. After the holiday party, Rolfe becomes concerned about Troob because:
(a) Troob disappears.
(b) Troob feels guilty about his behavior.
(c) Troob drank too much.
(d) He is found naked in an alley.

4. What did Rolfe receive very little _____ throughout the development of pitches?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Valuable time with friends.
(c) Relationships with love interests.
(d) Alone time.

5. How did associates learn that they should treat the copy center well?
(a) The workers told them everything they need to know.
(b) The hard way. They had to think of good bribes over time.
(c) From gossiping.
(d) At training.

6. On average, how many times is a pitch book sent back to word processing?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) One.

7. What was always well received by workers at the copy center?
(a) Work at the last minute.
(b) Cash at Christmas time.
(c) Beer during the work day.
(d) Chit Chat.

8. What happened to the older bankers?
(a) They make less money.
(b) They die alone.
(c) They try to leave for the non-sector.
(d) They were unmarried, lecherous, and perverted.

9. How do accountants factor into the prospectus process?
(a) They were forced to lie.
(b) Associates prep them for client meetings.
(c) They crunch numbers as the execs want them to.
(d) They were not used.

10. Getting on the bad side of the copy center was ___________.
(a) To commit career suicide.
(b) Put the workers in their place.
(c) Angered superiors.
(d)

11. How much are word processors paid an hour?
(a) $20.
(b) $19.
(c) $50.
(d) $10.

12. Who was in charge of revising the pitch books?
(a) New associates.
(b) Junior vice presidents.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Managing directors.

13. Unfortunately for Rolfe and Troob, what didn't company trips come with?
(a)
(b) An expense account.
(c) Nice accommodations.
(d) No social and cultural activities.

14. What happened when most of the senior execs left for the night at the end of a long work day?
(a) Everyone went to dinner.
(b) The associates had a party.
(c) Associates and analysts decided to go home.
(d) The real work began.

15. Who was sworn to secrecy concerning bonuses?
(a) Managing directors.
(b) Everyone at the company.
(c) Vice presidents.
(d) Associates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the word processors perform their jobs?

2. What did group dinner sessions become?

3. In the book, what company do Rolfe and Troob use to detail the word processing process?

4. When did Rolfe's disillusionment finally begin?

5. In The Merry-Go-Round, how many hours were usually left between the completion of edits of the pitch book until the presentation of the book?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 528 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample