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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the head of communications at Lehman Brothers in Chapter 6?
(a) Michael Cavanaugh
(b) Andrew Gowers
(c) Jeremiah Norton
(d) Tony Ryan

2. In what year did Hank Paulson become a partner at Goldman Sachs?
(a) 1982
(b) 1989
(c) 1979
(d) 1985

3. Where was Dick Fuld visiting when he received an urgent call from Henry Paulson regarding the collapse of the fifth largest investment bank in the U.S., according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Iceland
(b) China
(c) England
(d) India

4. What word from Chapter 5 derives from German and describes an all-motorized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power?
(a) Shock-and-awe
(b) Kamikaze
(c) Assassination
(d) Blitzkrieg

5. Dick Fuld was the CEO of what global financial services firm in March, 2008?
(a) Wells Fargo
(b) JP Morgan
(c) Greenlight Capital
(d) Lehman Brothers

Short Answer Questions

1. Timothy Geithner worked for the Treasury Department and what organization prior to his appointment as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?

2. Dick Fuld and who called Warren Buffett to ask him to consider investing in Lehman Brothers, according to the author in Chapter 2?

3. Where did Dick Fuld receive his B.A. and B.S. in 1969?

4. What was the title of the article from the Wall Street Journal that Dick Fuld called “the worst betrayal of my career” in Chapter 6?

5. What reporter wrote the story about Lehman that he described in Chapter 6 as “the worst betrayal of my career”?

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