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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Michael Burry study in college?
(a) Engineering.
(b) History.
(c) Law.
(d) Medicine.

2. When was Michael Burry born?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1971.

3. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) My Work in Mortgages.
(b) How to Harvest a Migrant Worker.
(c) The Mortgage Harvest.
(d) Migrant Workers in Beverly Hills.

4. After Eisman's published report, there were no more public subprime mortgage lenders by what year, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2004.

5. What Chinese national who came in second in a math competition in China accompanied Greg Lippmann in Chapter 3?
(a) Michael Oher.
(b) Euguene Xu.
(c) Meredith Whitney.
(d) Steve Eisman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 6?

3. What led Michael Burry to leave his original profession and become a money manager?

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

5. When Cornwall Capital Management moved to Bear Sterns, their account was handled by whom?

(see the answer key)

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