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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Morgan Stanley corporation founded?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1935.

2. When was the conference for subprime mortgage bond salesmen and buyers in Chapter 6?
(a) August, 2008.
(b) January, 2007.
(c) May, 2008.
(d) June, 2004.

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

4. In Chapter 5, Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai continued to make risky investments until they had grown their investment company to how much?
(a) $75 million.
(b) $30 million.
(c) $10 million.
(d) $200 million.

5. In Chapter 5, Ledley and Mai bought multi-million dollar triple-A CDOs rather than the triple-B CDOs who had purchased?
(a) Burry and Eisman.
(b) Cassano and Burry.
(c) Lippmann and Xu.
(d) Lippmann and Cassano.

Short Answer Questions

1. Michael Burry could not bet against mortgage bonds in the same way he could other bonds because he could not short houses, only what?

2. After the conference in Chapter 6, Eisman and his group began paying close attention to what?

3. What does NYSE stand for?

4. Michael Burry worked as a resident in what field 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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