View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Hank Paulson earn his B.A. in English?
(a) Yale University
(b) Harvard University
(c) Dartmouth College
(d) Stanford University

2. In Chapter 16, who called JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to come meet with the other Wall Street leaders to look at a solution for the AIG problem?
(a) Timothy Geithner
(b) Jim Cramer
(c) David Goldfarb
(d) David Einhorn

3. Timothy Geithner worked for the Treasury Department and what organization prior to his appointment as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?
(a) The World Bank
(b) The International Monetary Fund
(c) The Bank of Berlin
(d) The Bank of Rome

4. Hank Paulson’s team of advisors in Chapter 12 included Tony Ryan, Jeremiah Norton, Jim Wilkinson, Jeb Mason, and whom?
(a) Rick Lazio
(b) Bob Hoyt
(c) Kerrie Cohen
(d) Frank Zarb

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does FDIC stand for?

2. Dick Fuld expressed his belief that Lehman Brothers was under attack by what in Chapter 4?

3. According to the author in Chapter 14, beneath the New York Federal Reserve Building lies a three-level vault that holds more than how much money’s worth of gold?

4. Who nominated Hank Paulson to his post in the federal cabinet?

5. What banker from Citigroup asked during the meeting of the top bankers at the New York Federal Reserve Building in Chapter 14, “I assume we are going to talk about AIG?”

(see the answer key)

This section contains 273 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample