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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bob Willumstad had been asked by the board of AIG to replace whom as CEO in Chapter 8?
(a) Martin Sullivan
(b) David Einhorn
(c) Eddie Lampert
(d) Tony Ryan

2. In what year does the author state Long-Term Capital Management blew up in Chapter 5?
(a) 1996
(b) 1999
(c) 1998
(d) 1995

3. After leaving Citigroup, Bob Willumstad went on to start what private-equity fund?
(a) Lehman Brothers
(b) Brysam Global Partners
(c) Westwood Capital LLC
(d) Wells Fargo

4. Who is described in Chapter 12 as “a former Republican representative from New York, whom Dimon had hired as executive vice president of global government relations and public policy”?
(a) David Einhorn
(b) Jim Bunning
(c) Rick Lazio
(d) Michael Bloomberg

5. Gerald Donini asserts when speaking with Jim Cramer in Chapter 5 that he felt the real problem in the marketplace wasn’t short-selling, but what?
(a) Subprime lending
(b) Stocks
(c) Naked-shorting
(d) Derivatives

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was oil going for per barrel according to the author in Chapter 9?

2. Who did Scott Friedheim believe to be responsible for the leak to the Wall Street Journal in Chapter 6?

3. What analyze at Fox-Pitt Kelton is quoted in the New York Times in Chapter 13 as saying, “Some may worry that Treasury has taken on so much taxpayer burden they don’t have any remaining capacity to take on the burdens of Lehman”?

4. On what date did Lloyd Blankfein arrive in the city where the Goldman Sachs board meeting was to take place in Chapter 9?

5. According to the author in Chapter 12, “Internally, JP Morgan’s operating committee trips to Washington were jokingly referred to as” what?

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