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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who filled Pierpont Morgan's role at the bankers' meeting to discuss the Crash?
(a) Owen Young.
(b) Tom Lamont.
(c) Dwight Morrow.
(d) Jack Morgan.

2. The Morgans were instrumental in helping Sosthenes Behn build what?
(a) A company building.
(b) The Alleghany Corporation.
(c) A bridge.
(d) International Telephone and Telegraph.

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

4. In 1936 there were Congressional hearings on the role of the bankers in what?
(a) Germany.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Depression.
(d) The 1929 Crash.

5. Who is the wealthiest of the Morgan partners?
(a) Mellon.
(b) Heller.
(c) Brandeis.
(d) Lamont.

6. What does Morgan help Pope Pius Xi to do?
(a) Understand the US financial position.
(b) Arrange a loan.
(c) Restore Vatican manuscripts.
(d) Arrange a conference with Mussolini.

7. When is the Clayton Antitrust Act enacted?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1914.

8. President Hoover believes that there was a Wall Street conspiracy against him that is engaging in what?
(a) Long selling.
(b) Selling secrets.
(c) Selling loans.
(d) Short selling.

9. When was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act enacted?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1931.

10. Where does Jack buy property for the Morgan Memorial Park as a memorial for Jessie?
(a) Boston.
(b) Glen Cove.
(c) Hartford.
(d) New York City.

11. When is the Richard Whitney and Company suspended from the stock exchange?
(a) October 4, 1938.
(b) March 7, 1938.
(c) January 3, 1938.
(d) December 7, 1938.

12. The Glass Steagall Act resulted in the separation of commercial banking from what?
(a) Offering loans.
(b) Selling stocks.
(c) Investment banking.
(d) The stock exchange.

13. When does Jack move Pierpont's art collection to the US?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1919.

14. Who was Ferdinand Pecora?
(a) A Morgan partner.
(b) A friend of President Hoover's.
(c) A lawyer who headed up an investigation of Wall Street.
(d) A senator.

15. Who coins the term Money Trust?
(a) Harry Davison.
(b) Pierpont Morgan.
(c) Jack Morgan.
(d) Charles Lindbergh, Sr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is kidnapped five months after Morrow dies?

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

3. Who introduces obligatory military service to Germany in the 1930s?

4. Who opposes Mussolini in the press?

5. After the 1929 crash of the US stock market, where does the investment market switch to?

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