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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Young Plan deal with?
(a) Repayment of Mexico's debts.
(b) United States railroads.
(c) German reparation payments.
(d) British loans.

2. When does Mussolini invade Albania?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1935.

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

4. Who introduces obligatory military service to Germany in the 1930s?
(a) Goring.
(b) Schmidt.
(c) Hitler.
(d) The Secretary of the Army.

5. Who opposes Mussolini in the press?
(a) Walter Lippmann.
(b) Arthur Pearson.
(c) Jimmy Jones.
(d) Charles Dere.

6. Where is Pierpont when the stock market panic of October 1907 begins?
(a) At his office.
(b) At the New York stock exchange.
(c) At the Pujo hearings.
(d) At a religious covention.

7. Dwight Morrow is appointed Ambassador to what country by President Coolidge?
(a) Mexico.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

8. During the 1920s how did corporations generally finance corporate expansion?
(a) Investment trusts.
(b) Cash.
(c) Bond issues.
(d) Stock issues.

9. What city is the center of the financial world when this book opens?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Washington, DC.
(d) Paris.

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

11. What does Jack build in his father's memory?
(a) A library.
(b) A yacht.
(c) An art museum.
(d) A building in New York.

12. Whom does Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Betty Morrow.
(b) Susan Darrow.
(c) Anne Morrow.
(d) Anne Lamont.

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

14. In the 1920s the economic boom basically occurred in what economic or financial sector?
(a) Oil.
(b) Stock market.
(c) Transportation.
(d) Bond market.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coins the term Money Trust?

2. Who decides to open an investment house called Morgan Stanley?

3. What percentage of Morgan business deals with common stock issues in the 1920s?

4. What depletes England of gold?

5. What issue involving Mexico causes a feud between two Morgan partners, Lamont and Morrow?

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