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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1979 Morgan Stanley loses an IBM deal to what other firm?
(a) Schwab.
(b) Lehman Brothers.
(c) Salomon Brothers.
(d) Morgan Grenfell.

2. What is the name of the first Morgan mutual fund?
(a) The Pierpont Fund.
(b) The Junius Fund.
(c) The Morgan Fund.
(d) The Morgan Family Fund.

3. Who becomes the post-war head of Morgan Grenfell?
(a) Stephen Catto.
(b) Monty Norman.
(c) Tom Catto.
(d) Harry Morgan.

4. What do Wall Street banks use as a form of finance during this period?
(a) Foreign currency.
(b) Compensating balances.
(c) Securities.
(d) Bonds.

5. When does Nabisco use an LBO for hostile raid?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

6. Who is fired by Morgan Grenfell after the Guinness scandal?
(a) George Magan.
(b) Roger Seelig.
(c) Andrew Jacobs.
(d) Graham Walsh.

7. Who becomes the first Jew to be hired at Morgan Stanley and also the second youngest partner in Morgan history?
(a) Lewis Bernard.
(b) Robert Baldwin.
(c) Lewis Berstein.
(d) Robert Bradford.

8. What new business does JP Morgan enter into as a corporation that it could not do as a partnership?
(a) Securities.
(b) Bonds.
(c) Trust business.
(d) Home loans.

9. When People Express runs into trouble, what airline does it merge with?
(a) Continental.
(b) Northwest.
(c) Frontier.
(d) Texas Air.

10. When is England attacked by the Nazis?
(a) January 1940.
(b) December 1940.
(c) August 1940.
(d) June 1940.

11. How much does Morgan Grenfell make on the American Tobacco deal?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $2 million.
(c) $250,000.
(d) $1 million.

12. Why can't Morgan Grenfell enter the US market?
(a) Because of its relationship with Morgan Stanley.
(b) Because of the Takeover Panel rules.
(c) Because of the Glass Steagall Act.
(d) Because of the Bank of England prohibitions.

13. Who is Giovanni Fummi?
(a) A Morgan partner in the London office.
(b) A Morgan agent in Italy.
(c) A Vatican agent in Morgan's New York office.
(d) A Vatican agent in Italy.

14. Why does Morgan Grenfell hire John Stevens?
(a) To help with mergers.
(b) To put together syndicated loans.
(c) To run its office management area.
(d) To open foreign offices.

15. The repeal of the Neutrality Acts allows who to purchase arms from the US?
(a) Anyone.
(b) Nations friendly to the US.
(c) Nations who are friends of nations at war.
(d) Nations at war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adnan Khashoggi is a client of which Morgan firm?

2. In 1977 what company does Kennecott Copper buy?

3. When does the SEC new Rule 415 come into effect?

4. What happens to Morgan's Leonard Rist of the Paris Morgan office when the Nazis arrive?

5. When does Guinness acquire fifty percent of Distillers shares?

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