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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 11 as the Vice Chairman of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley?
(a) Daniel A. Simkowitz
(b) Eliot Spitzer
(c) Lewis Glucksman
(d) Hank Greenberg

2. Hank Paulson and his staff prepared a secret plan for how to deal with the situation should Lehman or another large firm go bankrupt, or if several banks should begin to fail at once. Who did they present their plan to in a meeting described by Sorkin in Chapter 4?
(a) Daniel A. Simkowitz
(b) Michael Bloomberg
(c) Ben Bernanke
(d) Jim Cramer

3. Freddie Mac had a reported loss of how much in the morning when Henry Paulson met with the top bankers at the Treasury building in Chapter 11?
(a) $697 million
(b) $558 million
(c) $821 million
(d) $461 million

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) Barry Zubrow
(c) Bob Hoyt
(d) Rick Lazio

5. Who was described as the head of Bank of New York Mellon in Chapter 17?
(a) Gerald Donini
(b) Bob Kelly
(c) Joe Gregory
(d) David Einhorn

Short Answer Questions

1. Who complained to Henry Paulson that short sellers were spreading false rumors to drive the panic after the government’s intervention with AIG in Chapter 17?

2. Who did Dick Fuld ask to put in a word with the Korean bank for Lehman Brothers in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 16, who called JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to come meet with the other Wall Street leaders to look at a solution for the AIG problem?

4. How old was David Einhorn described as being when he prepared for a speech at the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference in Chapter 5?

5. Dick Fuld expressed his belief that Lehman Brothers was under attack by what in Chapter 4?

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