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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a collection of one hundred different mortgage bonds, usually the riskiest that are combined to create a new group of bonds that could take the low rated bonds and reclassify them at a higher rate?
(a) Credit default swap.
(b) FICO Scores.
(c) Collateral debt obligation.
(d) Tranches.

3. In 2007, Meredith Whitney announced that what company had so mismanaged its affairs that it would slash its dividend or crash?
(a) Citigroup.
(b) Salomon Brothers.
(c) The Fitch Group.
(d) Gotham Capital.

4. In Chapter 4, AIG FP did not get whose message as he assumed they had?
(a) Michael Lewis'.
(b) Greg Lippmann's.
(c) Ace Greenburg's.
(d) Ben Hockett's.

5. Who began taking the bottom tranches of their mortgage bonds and packaging them together to create CDOs in Chapter 3?
(a) Standard & Poor's.
(b) Scion Capital.
(c) Goldman Sachs.
(d) Cornwall Capital Management.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Michael Lewis' first book published?

2. The first night of the conference in Chapter 6, Steve Eisman was seated next to a man named what?

3. When was Michael Lewis born?

4. How much money did Howie Hubler owe Deutsche Bank on the CDOs purchased from Hubler in Chapter 9?

5. What is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany?

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