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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim Cracchiolo was described as the head of what institution in Chapter 17?
(a) Morgan Stanley
(b) Ameriprise
(c) Brysam Global Partners
(d) Greenlight Capital

2. Who is described in Chapter 11 as the Co-President at Morgan Stanley and the man who had worked on the government’s bailout of Chrysler nearly three decades earlier?
(a) Robert Scully
(b) Daniel A. Simkowitz
(c) Martin Sullivan
(d) Timothy Geithner

3. Dick Fuld expressed his belief that Lehman Brothers was under attack by what in Chapter 4?
(a) Subprime lenders
(b) Mortgages
(c) Short-sellers
(d) Derivatives

4. Who did Dick Fuld contact at the Federal Reserve about Lehman Brothers possibly becoming a bank company in Chapter 10?
(a) Timothy Geithner
(b) Bob Hoyt
(c) Rick Lazio
(d) Barry Zubrow

5. What is the common name for the Federal National Mortgage Association?
(a) Ameriprise
(b) Wachovia
(c) Fannie Mae
(d) Reserve Primary Fund

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was described as Hank Paulson’s adversary on the Senate Banking Committee in Chapter 10?

2. Who was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets of the Treasury in Chapter 11?

3. What word from Chapter 5 derives from German and describes an all-motorized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power?

4. Hank Paulson and his staff prepared a secret plan for how to deal with the situation in Chapter 4. Their plan proposed that should the banks fail, the Treasury Department would purchase up to how many of the bad assets of the banks in order to stabilize the market?

5. By what name is the regulation that “had been introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938 to prevent investors from continually shorting a stock that was falling” called?

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