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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. What fascinates the young Livingston?

2. How much money does Livingston make when he first comes back from St. Louis?

3. What does Livingston do at several small alternate exchanges?

4. What is one trait Livingston says a successful stock trader must have?

5. What does experience give a successful stock trader?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Livingston say patterns can be used and who uses them well?

2. What lesson does Livingston finally learn about markets?

3. What does Livingston believe is his best guide to trading and what does he say a good trader must be?

4. What does Livingston see the market doing, what does he think will happen and what does he do about it?

5. What happens a few days after he sells Union Pacific and how did that help Livingston?

6. What does Livingston say again about the bucket shops and Wall Street?

7. What do customers in bucket shops do?

8. What happens in October of 1907?

9. What cotton trader does Livingston meet and what does he propose?

10. Why does Livingston wish he had not listened to his branch manager?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Livingston goes back and forth between cities trying to earn money. He won't settle down and learn how to do Wall Street. Given his circumstances he doesn't seem to be a very stable individual.

1. Would you agree or disagree with the above statement? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Given what we've seen thus far of Livingston's character explain, in detail, why he probably wouldn't be happy in a steady job.

3. Why do you think Livingston keeps moving around? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

This book is a work of fiction yet also a thinly disguised biography. Can a book be both fiction and non-fiction?

1. Would you classify this book as a novel or a biography? Why?

2. Research biography and fiction. Write a short essay explaining the difference.

3. Do you think a novel can have so much of the truth in it that it could be classified as non-fiction? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The book, REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR, is considered a classic in business education and is required reading in most business colleges.

1. Why do you think the above statement is true?

2. After reading REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR do you think you understand more of the stock market and the economy than before you read it? Why or why not?

3. Do you think it is too outdated to be of any use to students today? Why or why not?

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