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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Lewis Glucksman
(c) John Mack
(d) Jeb Mason

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

5. What was the title of the article from the Wall Street Journal that Dick Fuld called “the worst betrayal of my career” in Chapter 6?
(a) Lehman Ends $38 Billion Standoff
(b) Lehman Brothers Holdings to Consider Monetization of Claims Vs. Holding Company
(c) Lehman Files for Bankruptcy, Merrill Sold, AIG Seeks Cash
(d) Lehman Is Seeking Oversees Capital

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

3. Who did Scott Friedheim believe to be responsible for the leak to the Wall Street Journal in Chapter 6?

4. In what year did Hank Paulson become a partner at Goldman Sachs?

5. Where was Dick Fuld born?

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