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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2008, AIG had grown into one of the world’s largest financial companies, with a market value of just under how much?
(a) $125 billion
(b) $50 billion
(c) $35 billon
(d) $80 billion

2. AIG began with what name in a small office in Shanghai in 1919?
(a) Pacific Ring Investments
(b) American Asiatic Underwriters
(c) Asian-American Investment Partnership
(d) Asian Underwriters Union

3. What word in finance refers to the act of making loans to people who may have difficulty maintaining the repayment schedule?
(a) Derivative lending
(b) Subprime lending
(c) Naked short-selling
(d) Short-selling

4. What was the name of Lehman Brothers’ bomb-sniffing Labrador described in Chapter 5?
(a) Tenaya
(b) Bella
(c) Ducky
(d) Sassy

5. Morgan Stanley had entered into talks with whom from CIC in Chapter 18?
(a) Jun Kwang-woo
(b) Jean-Claude Trichet
(c) Min Euoo Song
(d) Gao Xiqing

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author say Gerald Domini lived in Chapter 5?

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. Who is described as Lehman Brothers’ spokesperson in Chapter 6?

4. Mitsubishi agreed to an investment of how much in Morgan Stanley in Chapter 18?

5. 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?

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