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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, When to Fight, When to Fold.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jack's title at the new GE plastics plant?
(a) Publicity Director.
(b) Human Resources Director.
(c) President and CEO.
(d) General Manager.

2. Which phrase sums up GE's core values and expectations during Jack's reign as CEO?
(a) Finding a better way every day.
(b) What goes up, must come down.
(c) Looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
(d) Every cloud has a silver lining.

3. What is Jack's "Vitality Curve"?
(a) A cool gym added to each factory.
(b) An employee evaluation system.
(c) A pitch used by Jack at company softball games.
(d) An energy supplement Jack uses.

4. What is one business in his vice president's portfolio that Jack has no interest in at all?
(a) Medical plastics.
(b) Wind turbines.
(c) Petroleum conservation.
(d) Semiconductors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jack when he is promoted to a vice president for GE?

2. In Chapter 13, when does GE deadline its goal to become a $100 billion company with $10 billion in profits?

3. By May 2001, which established TV show is Jack's competing with directly?

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

5. What nickname does the media pin on Jack?

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