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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A yurodiry has access to greater truth than others because of their status as a what?
(a) A prisoner.
(b) A prince.
(c) A priest.
(d) An outsider.

2. What did the staff at the Renaissance do when they suspected Madoff of fraud?
(a) They warned their friends.
(b) They called the police.
(c) They sold off half their stock.
(d) They did nothing.

3. What kind of a guy is a quant, according to Gladwell?
(a) An architect.
(b) A numbers guy.
(c) A boss man.
(d) A leg man.

4. What was the first name of the scientist named Levine who studied humans' capacity to detect lies?
(a) Mike.
(b) Steve.
(c) Tim.
(d) Don.

5. In which century did Montezuma II and Hernan Cortes meet?
(a) The 16th.
(b) The 17th.
(c) The 13th.
(d) The 15th.

6. What is the first name of Markopoulos, the quant who first warned the SEC about Madoff's shady dealings?
(a) Henry.
(b) Harry.
(c) Michael.
(d) Steven.

7. Who made plans to have tea with Hitler on two different occasions?
(a) Joseph Stalin.
(b) Vladamir Lenin.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Winston Churchill.

8. How many people died when Hermanos al Rescate planes were shot down over the Florida straits?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

9. What kinds of sounds did McQueary report hearing from the shower room when he was asked about it on the stand?
(a) Moaning.
(b) Punching.
(c) Slapping.
(d) Screaming.

10. What type of test did Levine provide to his research subjects?
(a) A drawing test.
(b) A trivia test.
(c) A visual acuity test.
(d) An IQ test.

11. How many times did Hitler stand up an appointment to have tea with a particular world leader?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

12. At what house number on Downing Street did Neville Chamberlain live?
(a) 100.
(b) 10.
(c) 1000.
(d) 2.

13. How many times in total did Neville Chamberlain spend time with Adolf Hitler?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

14. In which month of the year did Neville Chamberlain first travel to Germany?
(a) May.
(b) February.
(c) August.
(d) June.

15. What type of scheme was Madoff responsible for engineering?
(a) Tax.
(b) Embezzlement.
(c) Bank robbery.
(d) Ponzi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many million people within Montezuma II's kingdom died as a result of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and his men?

2. In what year did suspicions first begin to grow around Madoff's business dealings?

3. In which city did Madoff operate?

4. During which month of the year did Aspillaga defect from Cuba?

5. What ultimately happened after Montezuma II was taken hostage by the Spanish?

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