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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Too Full of Myself.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which investments does Jack find himself explaining and quite often defending?
(a) Soft value of excellence investments.
(b) Hardware investments.
(c) Hard-hat construction investments.
(d) Software investments.

2. Who blows up one of GE's factories?
(a) Gutoff.
(b) Drickerson.
(c) Jack.
(d) Coplan.

3. How does investment banker Joseph Jett rip off the company?
(a) He makes fictitious trades to inflate his own bonus.
(b) He installs a computer virus company wide.
(c) He takes money from the corporate safe.
(d) He takes all the office supplies and leaves with them.

4. Who says, "When people make mistakes, the last thing they need is discipline"?
(a) Coplan.
(b) Jack.
(c) Reed.
(d) Gutoff.

5. To whom does GE sell its investment banking firm?
(a) Chase, Manhattan.
(b) Kidder, Peabody.
(c) Paine-Webber.
(d) Carpenter-Welch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the learning/training curriculum show its participants?

2. What is the key to Jack's solution as he addresses the complaint expressed by trainees at GE's learning center?

3. What does Jack say is the only realistic form of job security?

4. Who throws a huge party for Jack to introduce him to important people?

5. How long does it take Jack and his team to find a solution to their new plastics product?

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