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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Pirates in the Desert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Wynn enter the Las Vegas casino market?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1967.

2. What new hotel was intended to take the place of the one being destroyed?
(a) Paris.
(b) Treasure Island.
(c) Luxor.
(d) The Bellagio.

3. What was Steve Wynn voted most often by Las Vegas newspaper readers?
(a) The best personality in Las Vegas.
(b) The most handsome Las Vegan.
(c) The best hotelier in Las Vegas.
(d) The most interesting Las Vegan.

4. What is La Cosa Nostra?
(a) The Mafia.
(b) An Italian tour guidebook.
(c) A New York prison.
(d) An Italian restaurant.

5. What was the cost of the hotel's destruction?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $1.5 million.
(c) $7.5 million.
(d) $5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wynn was sometimes compared to Las Vegas legends Bugsy Siegel and _________________.

2. Wynn has been called ____________________.

3. Wynn was in the company of _____________ mobsters when he entered the Las Vegas casino market at the Frontier in 1967.

4. Which securities wizard helped Wynn establish the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City and the Mirage in Las Vegas?

5. Into which East coast city did Wynn make his casino entrance?

(see the answer key)

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