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

2. Who does Jack succeed as CEO of General Electric?
(a) Harry Drickman.
(b) Jeff Immelt.
(c) Roy Johnson.
(d) Reg Jones.

3. What does Jack say is the only realistic form of job security?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Law enforcement.
(c) Satisfied customers.
(d) Government work.

4. Why was Jack appointed CEO of the company?
(a) The retiring CEO believes Jack is the one who can most effectively help the company change and grow.
(b) No one else wanted the job.
(c) Jack was the retiring CEO's nephew.
(d) Everyone else was fired after the scandal. Jack was the only one with seniority.

5. How does Jack lose his college scholarship funded by the country club?
(a) He breaks a window with a golf club.
(b) He insults a club member.
(c) He flirts with a member's wife.
(d) He shows up for work drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jack's title at the new GE plastics plant?

2. Which of the following is not a job held by young Jack?

3. How much has the PCB levels in fish dropped since the congressional act?

4. Who transforms GE Capital from a purely financial business into a thriving business that uses deal-making for operational skills?

5. Which three TV shows turn around the entertainment sector of the GE-owned company?

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