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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the head of Morgan Stanley's Mergers and Acquisitions department in the 1980s?
(a) Gerald Smith.
(b) Dick Fisher.
(c) Parker Gilbert.
(d) Eric Gleacher.

3. What becomes Morgan Stanley's main source of business?
(a) New issues.
(b) Foreign loans.
(c) Mergers.
(d) Loans.

4. How much does Fred Lee make in an insider trading scheme?
(a) $16.5 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $5.5 million.
(d) $1 million.

5. When does the SEC charge Tommy S. Lamont with inside trading?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1965.

6. Who heads the Corporate Finance Department of Morgan Grenfell?
(a) Geoffrey Collier.
(b) Graham Walsh.
(c) George Magan.
(d) Roger Seelig.

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

8. When does the US enter the war?
(a) March 1941.
(b) December 1940.
(c) August 1941.
(d) December 1941.

9. Who is Walter Funk?
(a) Head of the Reichsbank.
(b) Economics minister of Germany.
(c) Assistant to Hitler.
(d) Economics minister of Austria.

10. Who is Asher Edelman?
(a) Corporate raider.
(b) Partner in Morgan Stanley.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Trader.

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

12. What is the bone of contention between the New York and London Morgan firms?
(a) The marraige of Nancy Langhorne.
(b) World War I war debt.
(c) Joseph P. Kennedy's ambassadorship.
(d) Where Jack Morgan lives.

13. When does Morgan Grenfell go public?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1986.

14. When do the Saudis form a central bank called SAMA?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1960.

15. Morgan Guaranty pioneers in what new financial instrument market?
(a) Treasury securities.
(b) Fed Funds.
(c) Municipal securities.
(d) Certificates of deposits.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Leffingwell serve as chairman of Morgan?

2. When does Morgan Stanley's first hostile takeover occur?

3. How much does Morgan Grenfell make on the American Tobacco deal?

4. In the mid 1970s Morgan Stanley leads the industry in what kind of offerings?

5. Which Morgan partner leads Morgan Stanley to change?

(see the answer keys)

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