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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 51
(b) 33
(c) 42
(d) 39

2. What was referred to as “the good bank-bad bank plan” that McDade was thinking of announcing in Chapter 12?
(a) The derivatives plan
(b) The TARP plan
(c) The SpinCo plan
(d) The SupCo plan

3. Who was described by the author in Chapter 14 as Bank of America’s President of Global Corporate and Investment Banking?
(a) Brian Moynihan
(b) Bob Diamond
(c) John F. Rogers
(d) Eddie Lampert

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

5. Who was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets of the Treasury in Chapter 11?
(a) Ron Beller
(b) Lloyd Blankfein
(c) Anthony Ryan
(d) Bob Steel

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was described in Chapter 17 as “a thirty-eight-year-old governor at the Federal Reserve, whose office was a few doors down from Bernanke’s”?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, Henry Paulson called and informed Dick Fuld that Bear Stearns collapsed and that the U.S. Treasury had taken the step of backing how much in Bear Stearns assets to restore confidence in the market?

4. Who did Hank Paulson succeed as Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs?

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

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