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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 Lewis born?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1963.

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

3. 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?
(a) Cornwall Capital Management.
(b) Merrill Lynch.
(c) FrontPoint.
(d) Standard & Poor's.

4. Where did Ben Hockett live and make investments from in Chapter 5?
(a) Berkeley Hills, California.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

5. The contract with which one of Scion's original investors was coming up in Chapter 8?
(a) Wachovia.
(b) Merrill Lynch.
(c) Citigroup.
(d) Gotham.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Scion Capital open business?

2. Where was Ben Hockett on vacation when he hit the internet and quickly began selling the CDOs in Chapter 9?

3. On what date did the head of the International Monetary Fund warn that the world financial system was teetering on the "brink of systemic meltdown"?

4. What is often referred to as a form of insurance that protects a lender if a borrower of capital defaults on a loan?

5. The alterations to bond ratings made by mortgage lenders in Chapter 4 led to such things as lending how much money to a migrant worker who made only $14,000 a year?

(see the answer key)

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