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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was described as the Managing Director of Westwood Capital LLC in Chapter 11?
(a) Dick Fuld
(b) Dan Alpert
(c) David Einhorn
(d) David Goldfarb

2. Who was Bob Willumstad’s partner in starting a private-equity fund after he left Citigroup?
(a) Gerald Donini
(b) Scott Friedheim
(c) Marge Magner
(d) Sandy Weill

3. Who was described in Chapter 17 as “a thirty-eight-year-old governor at the Federal Reserve, whose office was a few doors down from Bernanke’s”?
(a) Kevin Warsh
(b) Brian Moynihan
(c) Jeb Mason
(d) Rick Waddell

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

5. Who is described in Chapter 12 as the Chairman of the Financial Services Commission in Korea?
(a) Min Euoo Song
(b) Jun Kwang-woo
(c) Gao Xiqing
(d) Vikram Pandit

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was described as the head of Bank of New York Mellon in Chapter 17?

2. With whom did Dick Fuld meet along with the board of Morgan Stanley in order to find a lifeline for Lehman Brothers in Chapter 10?

3. Dick Fuld and who called Warren Buffett to ask him to consider investing in Lehman Brothers, according to the author in Chapter 2?

4. What was the name of Lehman Brothers’ bomb-sniffing Labrador described in Chapter 5?

5. According to the author in Chapter 5, David Einhorn was a hedge manager controlling over how much money in assets?

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