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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was described as Hank Paulson’s adversary on the Senate Banking Committee in Chapter 10?
(a) David Goldfarb
(b) David Faber
(c) Jim Wilkinson
(d) Jim Bunning

2. 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) Kamikaze
(c) Shock-and-awe
(d) Assassination

3. 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 Is Seeking Oversees Capital
(b) Lehman Ends $38 Billion Standoff
(c) Lehman Brothers Holdings to Consider Monetization of Claims Vs. Holding Company
(d) Lehman Files for Bankruptcy, Merrill Sold, AIG Seeks Cash

4. Bob Willumstad had been asked by the board of AIG to replace whom as CEO in Chapter 8?
(a) Eddie Lampert
(b) David Einhorn
(c) Tony Ryan
(d) Martin Sullivan

5. Who is described as Lehman Brothers’ spokesperson in Chapter 6?
(a) Erin Callan
(b) Sheila Bair
(c) Kerrie Cohen
(d) Margaret Law

Short Answer Questions

1. Jamie Dimon told Hank Paulson that JP Morgan had upped its offer from $2 per share to what in Chapter 2?

2. Jim Cramer was a popular television celebrity with an influential financial program on what network, according to the author in Chapter 5?

3. On what date does the author describe Bart McDade and Alex Kirk arriving in Dick Fuld’s office in the beginning of Chapter 13?

4. Lloyd Blankfein had assembled a meeting of the board of Goldman Sachs where in Chapter 9?

5. During the meeting of the top bankers at the New York Federal Reserve Building in Chapter 14, the bankers quickly renamed the company called SpinCo as what?

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