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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With all eyes on Lehman after the Bear collapse, Hank Paulson suggested to Dick Fuld that it would be a good idea for Lehman to increase its holdings of what to shore up confidence in the bank?
(a) Gold
(b) Platinum
(c) Silver
(d) Cash

2. Jamie Dimon was the Chief Executive Officer of what banking and financial services holding company in 2008?
(a) JP Morgan
(b) Wachovia
(c) Merrill Lynch
(d) Chemical Bank

3. Bob Steel called which old friend at Barclays Bank in London to ask if Barclays might be interested in purchasing Lehman in Chapter 4?
(a) David Viniar
(b) Vikram Pandit
(c) Dan Alpert
(d) Bob Diamond

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, David Einhorn was a hedge manager controlling over how much money in assets?
(a) $3 billion
(b) $12 billion
(c) $10 billion
(d) $6 billion

5. 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) Blitzkrieg
(b) Shock-and-awe
(c) Assassination
(d) Kamikaze

Short Answer Questions

1. The assignment of Jamie Dimon and a dozen of his rival CEOs at the emergency meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was to come up with a plan to save what company, according to the author in the Prologue?

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

3. Who did Dick Fuld choose as his right-hand-man when he became CEO of a leading global financial services firm?

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

5. With what country had Dick Fuld been working for a month to secure capital for Lehman in Chapter 6?

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