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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 second section of the pitch book did what of the following?

2. What do most business schools indoctrinate into their grads?

3. In the investment banking world, what were comps?

4. What did the winning investment bank distribute to potential buyers to get a sale?

5. How long were typical interviews for positions as summer associates?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rolfe and Troob describe top tier business schools throughout the novel?

2. How did investment bankers cut their own risk when dealing with new companies?

3. Unfortunately for Rolfe, he rarely slept while working on pitch books. Why does he put up with this horrible lifestyle.

4. What did Rolfe dread more, small business trips or the road show?

5. Why was it assumed that almost everyone would receive bonuses?

6. Explain the daily routine of a first year associate at DLJ.

7. Finally, what happened to the pitch books to ensure they were properly finished?

8. Why must DLJ employees keep their bonuses a secret?

9. Although the hours where very long, how did DLJ "thank" its associates for all their work?

10. In the Merry-Go-Round, what is a major part of developing a pitch book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. When both men tried to leave DLJ, how were they persuaded to stay?

2. Did DLJ seem to have any interest in making the actual job of being an associate any more meaningful?

3. If they had made the job more appeasing and meaningful to Rolfe and Troob, would both men have stayed?

Essay Topic 2

The SEC was created to offer regulation on the financial world.

1. Describe how investment banks conducted business prior to the stock market crash of the 1920s.

2. Detail how the SEC regulated banks from the 1920's to the early 2000s.

3. After reading this book and understanding the inner workings on investment banking, explain how you think the SEC should change regulations that could help the world out of its current economic recession.

Essay Topic 3

Bubbles and Gator are two of the upper ranking investment bankers that Rolfe and Troob often come into contact with.

1. Compare Bubbles work style to that of Gator's. How are the same and how are they different.

2. Did Rolfe and Troob look up these men or abhor them?

3. While working with Gator and Bubbles, how could Rolfe and Troob learn from these terrible men.

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