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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 17 Depression.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who attacks interlocking directorates between banks and industrial companies?
(a) Howard Taft.
(b) Charles Mellen.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Louis Brandeis.

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

3. The election of President Taft leads to what action in the financial world?
(a) Increased regulation of securities trading.
(b) Increased monopolies.
(c) Increased regulation of banking.
(d) Increased trust busting.

4. When do the Morgans purchase 23 Wall Street?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1911.

5. Which Morgan partner is serving as banker to Japan?
(a) Tom Lamont.
(b) Jack Morgan.
(c) John Keynes.
(d) Pierpont Morgan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Morgans were instrumental in helping Sosthenes Behn build what?

2. Morgan becomes involved with European reconstruction when it helps with a loan to what country?

3. During the 1920s how did corporations generally finance corporate expansion?

4. What company is the forerunner of what eventually becomes J.P. Morgan and Company?

5. Who is kidnapped five months after Morrow dies?

(see the answer key)

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