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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. Of all the positions, who was the lowest and most numerous?

2. What is a good way to describe the junior vice presidents?

3. In interviews, besides showing the personality of Troob and Rolfe, whose personalities were shown?

4. The second section of the pitch book did what of the following?

5. While investment bankers jobs have stayed somewhat the same, what had changed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the social events, traveling, and horrible work hours do to Troob?

2. How is the rest of a typical investment firm situated? Who comprises the upper sects of the company?

3. What is remarkable about Les Newton?

4. While the summer associates worked very hard, how did they play hard?

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

6. If a company is over valued by an investment bank, what eventually happened?

7. Describe the organization of an investment banking firm.

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

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

10. What causes multiple versions and edits of the pitch book to be made? Even hours before the presentation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Disillusionment is a theme that continually appears throughout the novel. As characters realize the true nature of their jobs, they are full of disappointment, anger, abused, and regretful:

Analyze three different times where Rolfe and Troob experience disillusionment with DLJ.

Describe the four phases they experienced.

Essay Topic 2

Although it might not seem as though the book was written with a lot of literary devices, foreshadowing is used quite a lot.

List and describe four times in which foreshadowing occurs throughout the book.

Also answer, what particular event is being foreshadows.

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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