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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Morgan partner has a long business relationship with Mussolini?
(a) Heller.
(b) Lamont.
(c) Grenfell.
(d) Jack.

3. When does the stock market crash in Japan?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1929.

4. Where do the Wall Street firms meet on July 31, 1914, when the European markets close?
(a) At the House of Morgan.
(b) At the offices of the lawyers for the New York Stock Exchange.
(c) At the Federal Reserve.
(d) At the New York Stock Exchange.

5. How much money are Morgan partners rumored to make in a year?
(a) $1 million.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $2 million.
(d) $500,000.

6. With regard to his philanthropic goals, what does Jack Morgan collect?
(a) Original manuscripts dated before the 1500s.
(b) Original manuscripts dated before the 1700s.
(c) Paintings from the 1700s.
(d) Paintings from the 1500s.

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

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

9. When does the official division of the House of Morgan occur?
(a) October 19, 1929.
(b) September 30, 1934.
(c) September 5, 1935.
(d) September 1, 1934.

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

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

12. What is the purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
(a) To make loans.
(b) To rebuild inner cities.
(c) To help rebuild farms.
(d) To buy property.

13. When does Morgan loan Italy $100 million?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

14. Who decides to open an investment house called Morgan Stanley?
(a) Morgan partners.
(b) J.P. Morgan.
(c) Morgan Stanley.
(d) Stanley Morgan.

15. When does Hitler become chancellor in Germany?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was George Peabody born?

2. In what type of business does Junius Morgan begin his career?

3. Dwight Morrow is appointed Ambassador to what country by President Coolidge?

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

5. In 1898 where doesJack Morgan work?

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