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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the bomb, attributed to anarchists, explode outside Morgan's Wall Street building?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1915.

2. The 1935 Wheeler subcommittee hearings involve banker involvement in what industry?
(a) Communications.
(b) Railroads.
(c) Electric utilities.
(d) Oil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When is the Glass Steagall Act enacted?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1933.

10. Who is the financial wizard of Nazi Germany during the 1930s?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Schmidt.
(c) Goring.
(d) Schacht.

11. Why does Jack Morgan begin to sell pieces of his collection?
(a) To put his estate in order.
(b) To continue his life style.
(c) To go on a cruise.
(d) To give the House of Morgan some cash.

12. Where does Pierpont die?
(a) Rome.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

13. When does Morrow die?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1929.

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

15. Who is kidnapped five months after Morrow dies?
(a) Morrow's son.
(b) Calles' son.
(c) Lindbergh's son.
(d) Lamont's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack build in his father's memory?

2. When do the Morgans purchase 23 Wall Street?

3. With regard to his philanthropic goals, what does Jack Morgan collect?

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

5. What does Morgan help Pope Pius Xi to do?

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