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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What headline on the Wall Street Journal was nagging at John Mack in the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Morgan Stanley's Government Gig
(b) Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud
(c) Buffett to Invest $5 Billion in Goldman
(d) Goldman, Morgan Now Stand Alone; Fight On or Fold?

2. As part of the plan for dealing with AIG’s problems, Bob Willumstad would be replaced as CEO of AIG by who, according to the author in Chapter 16?
(a) Eliot Spitzer
(b) Ed Liddy
(c) Lewis Glucksman
(d) Robert Scully

3. Bart McDade and Skip McGee from Lehman Brothers met with whom from KDB to hammer out a deal in Chapter 11?
(a) Gao Xiqing
(b) Vikram Pandit
(c) Min Euoo Song
(d) Jun Kwang-woo

4. 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) $461 million
(b) $821 million
(c) $697 million
(d) $558 million

5. Who was described as the head of Northern Trust in Chapter 17?
(a) Charlie Scharf
(b) Rick Waddell
(c) Skip McGee
(d) John Thain

Short Answer Questions

1. Bob Steel called which old friend at Barclays Bank in London to ask if Barclays might be interested in purchasing Lehman in Chapter 4?

2. Who did Dick Fuld contact at the Federal Reserve about Lehman Brothers possibly becoming a bank company in Chapter 10?

3. Jim Cracchiolo was described as the head of what institution in Chapter 17?

4. What giant money market fund had “broken the buck a day earlier” in Chapter 17?

5. In what year does the author state Long-Term Capital Management blew up in Chapter 5?

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