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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 9 Metamorphosis | Part 2 Chapter 10 War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When are the Pujo hearings?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1910.

2. The Northern Securities Company is a holding company for what?
(a) Steel.
(b) Investment firms.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Credit firms.

3. What depletes England of gold?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) Its purchase of steel.
(c) American investors.
(d) European investors.

4. In what year is there a Wall Street panic partially caused by the failure of the Northern Pacific Railroad bonds?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1869.

5. What company is the forerunner of what eventually becomes J.P. Morgan and Company?
(a) Drexel, Morgan, and Company.
(b) Duncan, Sherman, and Company.
(c) George Peabody and Company.
(d) J.S. Morgan and Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city is the center of the financial world when this book opens?

2. Pierpont arranges the financing for the purchase of what from France?

3. Who attacks interlocking directorates between banks and industrial companies?

4. When is the Clayton Antitrust Act enacted?

5. The US credibility in London and European markets depends on the dollar's convertibility into what?

(see the answer key)

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