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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what morning does the author describe Jamie Dimon awakening after an emergency meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with a dozen of his rival Wall Street CEOs in the beginning of the Prologue?
(a) January 5, 2010
(b) June 2, 2009
(c) September 13, 2008
(d) April 19, 2007

2. Who was Dick Fuld’s mentor at the global financial services firm where he began working and later led the company for much of his career?
(a) Greg Curl
(b) Jeb Mason
(c) Lewis Glucksman
(d) John Mack

3. Warren Buffett is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of what American multinational conglomerate holding company?
(a) BlackRock
(b) Berkshire Hathaway
(c) Wells Fargo
(d) Westwood Capital LLC

4. 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) China
(b) India
(c) England
(d) Iceland

5. Lloyd Blankfein had assembled a meeting of the board of Goldman Sachs where in Chapter 9?
(a) Denver
(b) Moscow
(c) Ottawa
(d) London

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Wells Fargo bank headquartered?

2. David Einhorn was the founder and president of what hedge fund?

3. In what year does the author state Long-Term Capital Management blew up in Chapter 5?

4. Hank Paulson and his staff prepared a secret plan for how to deal with the situation should Lehman or another large firm go bankrupt, or if several banks should begin to fail at once. Who did they present their plan to in a meeting described by Sorkin in Chapter 4?

5. Who was the head of JP Morgan’s Consumer Business department, according to the author in Chapter 12?

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