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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the first Morgans arrive in America?
(a) On the Mayflower.
(b) 16 years after the Mayflower.
(c) In 1802.
(d) In 1776.

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

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

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

5. What location bought by Pierpont becomes the setting for many business and other meetings?
(a) His limousine.
(b) The New York Stock Exchange.
(c) His yacht.
(d) His railroad car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marriner Stoddard Eccles?

2. In what year does the bomb, attributed to anarchists, explode outside Morgan's Wall Street building?

3. When does the official division of the House of Morgan occur?

4. Baring Brothers and Junius Morgan were principal holders of what type of securities, which were popular in London in 1890?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Morgan partners come to finance Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis flight?

2. Who represents Germany at the Paris conference where the Young Plan is adopted and why does he resign from the Reichsbank?

3. What causes a feud between the two Morgan partners, Morrow and Lamont?

4. At the end of World War I, what is the role of the United States and the Morgans with respect to the world financial markets?

5. Even when Mussolini is criticized for his violent tactics, who seems to side with Mussolini and why?

6. What are the first two crises that Jack Morgan faces after his father's death?

7. Why does Father Charles E. Coughlin, a radio priest of the time, attack the banking industry?

8. When World War I begins, what are the positions of the US government and the House of Morgan?

9. In 1934 why does Lamont stop supporting Japan?

10. What is the general economic status in the United States when the book opens in 1835?

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