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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds?
(a) Scion Capital.
(b) Standard & Poor's.
(c) Deutsche Bank.
(d) Cornwall Capital Management.

2. As Steve Eisman's team investigated in Chapter 4, they found patterns in the people and states that what?
(a) Suffered the highest default rates.
(b) Were the most successful.
(c) Had warmer climates.
(d) Were more educated.

3. What is the name of the investment group begun by Charlie Ledley and his partner in Chapter 5?
(a) Cornwall Capital Management.
(b) Capital One Financial.
(c) Scion Capital.
(d) FrontPoint.

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

5. In whose garage did Charlie Ledley begin operating a hedge fund in Chapter 5?
(a) Jamie Mai's.
(b) Steve Eisman's.
(c) Greg Lippmann's.
(d) Mike Burry's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Chinese national who came in second in a math competition in China accompanied Greg Lippmann in Chapter 3?

2. Who agreed to a $5 million dollar deal with Michael Burry in Chapter 2?

3. 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?

4. What are divisions of mortgage bonds in which the mortgage bonds are divided into pieces?

5. When did Steve Eisman publish a report outlining the bad practices of the subprime mortgage lender in Chapter 1?

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