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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What critic for Architecture Magazine, wrote of the New York Federal Reserve Building in 1927 that the three-year-old building had “a quality which, for lack of a better word, I can best describe as epic”?
(a) Gao Xiqing
(b) Jean-Claude Trichet
(c) Margaret Law
(d) Vikram Pandit

4. John Thain thought in Chapter 14 as he pulled up to the New York Federal Reserve Building that the last time he’d been there was during the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management in what year?
(a) 2005
(b) 1998
(c) 1993
(d) 2001

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the common name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation?

3. What is the common name for the Federal National Mortgage Association?

4. Mitsubishi is a group of companies based in what country?

5. What was the largest and most prestigious investment bank in the nation that Jamie Dimon advised his staff could possibly file bankruptcy in the Prologue?

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