The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Michael Lewis (author)
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Steve Eisman's team discovered in Chapter 4 that the mortgage lenders were using what to alter the rating of their bonds?
(a) Bad math.
(b) Hackers.
(c) FICO scores.
(d) Insider trading.

2. What is a legal document that institutions and businesses use to describe the securities they are offering for participants and buyers?
(a) Terms of Service.
(b) Contract.
(c) Syllabus.
(d) Prospectus.

3. In Chapter 3, soon all the CDSs AIG FP sold consisted primarily of what?
(a) Subprime mortgages.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Pork futures.
(d) Auto loans.

4. When did Scion Capital close business?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2008.

5. What company did Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai investigate because of some legal troubles, deciding that the legal trouble would blow over and their low stock would soon rally in Chapter 5?
(a) Oppenheimer and Co.
(b) Capital One Financial.
(c) Cornwall Capital Management.
(d) Deutsche Bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 8?

2. Gene Park worked for what company in Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 9 the author writes that it became apparent that no one at Morgan Stanley fully understood the CDO deals, including who?

4. In Michael Burry's first credit default swap, he bought how many bonds?

5. In Chapter 5, Ledley and Mai bought multi-million dollar triple-A CDOs rather than the triple-B CDOs who had purchased?

(see the answer key)

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