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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When are the Pujo hearings?

2. When is the Clayton Antitrust Act enacted?

3. What depletes England of gold?

4. What Morgan partner has a long business relationship with Mussolini?

5. Where is Pierpont when the stock market panic of October 1907 begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In 1934 why does Lamont stop supporting Japan?

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

4. What is the turning point for when the House of Morgan surpasses the House of Rothschilds?

5. What causes a Wall Street panic in 1873?

6. What are the Pujo hearings and what do they conclude?

7. In 1936 what causes the Congressional hearings into the bankers' role in World War I?

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

9. What are the immediate results of the stock market panic in October 1907 and what is Morgan's role?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose either World War I or World War II and describe how the Morgans were involved. Among things to discuss are their position with respect to the war, whether all the firms were on the same side, what influence they had with what governments, how they were financially involved, etc.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Morgan firms that existed at the close of the 1980s. Identify their primary business, their major clients, and their relationship to other Morgan firms.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the golden age for the House of Morgan. Why was this called the golden age?

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