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. Gene Park worked in offices where in Chapter 4?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Maine.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Virginia.

2. Howie Hubler's company was so impressed with Hubler that they made him a unique deal by giving him what within their company in Chapter 9?
(a) An extraordary bonus.
(b) Free investments.
(c) A money management firm.
(d) A house.

3. What does AIG FP stand for?
(a) American International Group Financial Products.
(b) American Investment Group Financial Portfolios.
(c) American International Group Fiscal Products.
(d) American Investment Group Financial Portfolios.

4. In Chapter 5, Ledley and Mai bought multi-million dollar triple-A CDOs rather than the triple-B CDOs who had purchased?
(a) Lippmann and Cassano.
(b) Burry and Eisman.
(c) Cassano and Burry.
(d) Lippmann and Xu.

5. What is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany?
(a) Oppenheimer and Co.
(b) The Fitch Group.
(c) Morgan Stanley.
(d) Deutsche Bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai make from their first major investment in a company with legal trouble in Chapter 5?

2. Who from Deutsche Bank asked if they could buy the swaps back from Michael Burry in Chapter 2?

3. The woman who stated that her supervisors picked and chose which mortgage bonds would be triple-A rated despite her frequent recommendations that most of them be downgraded worked for what company in Chapter 4?

4. Howie Hubler decided to find a way to bet against mortgage bonds and in doing so began forming what, which he sold to what he thought were ignorant investors?

5. As Steve Eisman's team investigated in Chapter 4, they found patterns in the people and states that what?

(see the answer key)

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