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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Steve Eisman got his job with Oppenheimer and Co. through whom?
(a) His neighbor.
(b) His uncle..
(c) His parents.
(d) A friend from college.

2. When was Michael Lewis' first book published?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1985.

3. Where did Steve Eisman's wife threaten to move to and raise chickens in Chapter 1?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Maine.

4. What does CDS stand for?
(a) Credit default swap.
(b) Consumer data system.
(c) Commercial data systems.
(d) Credit foreclosure systems.

5. 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 more educated.
(c) Had warmer climates.
(d) Were the most successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does FINRA stand for?

2. Gene Park worked in offices where in Chapter 4?

3. Who thought that if AIG stopped buying the bonds, the subprime mortgage bond market would collapse, making him a fortune in Chapter 3?

4. The first night of the conference in Chapter 6, Steve Eisman was seated next to a man who was a CDO manager for what company?

5. Who was Gene Park's boss in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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