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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. Who decides the value of a business?

2. In general, what are associates expected to do?

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

4. The summer between an MBA program is _________.

5. The personal accounts of the interview process by both Troob and Rolfe were filled with ______ and ______.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Of what little information the associates learned about their new jobs, what did they slowly discern was their job purpose?

3. What two things happen when managing directors brokers a deal with an outside company?

4. According to Rolfe and Troob, much of their success was tied to what group of people?

5. What did a typical summer associate spend much of their time doing? What this activity particularly enjoyable?

6. Above all else, what was important to Rolfe when he started working at DLJ?

7. Unfortunately for associates, what takes priority over any other job they might have been assigned?

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

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

10. Why is the summer in between an MBA program critical for many students?

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

Rolfe and Troob survived abuse, long work hours, ridiculous amounts of work, and aggravating travel arrangements to make a lot of money.

In your opinion, was it all worth it?

Could they have chosen different career paths that would have offered them less stress and the same amount of money?

Do you think that Rolfe and Troob should have just paid their dues in the investment banking world?

Essay Topic 3

1. Compare pre-SEC 1920's investment banking to present day investment banks. Consider:

2. How have SEC regulations changed investment banking? Do you think the regulations are enough?

3. How has the role of the investment banker changed?

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