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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 15 begins with the author’s description of the combined efforts to save Lehman Brothers beginning on what date?
(a) October 8, 2008
(b) December 13, 2008
(c) August 26, 2008
(d) September 14, 2008

2. Who was described as the head of Bank of New York Mellon in Chapter 17?
(a) Bob Kelly
(b) David Einhorn
(c) Joe Gregory
(d) Gerald Donini

3. 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) David Einhorn
(b) David Goldfarb
(c) Timothy Geithner
(d) Jim Cramer

4. Who was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2008?
(a) Jim Bunning
(b) Michael Bloomberg
(c) Jon Corzine
(d) Ben Bernanke

5. After much analysis, it was determined that after putting up all of its available assets for a short term loan, AIG would still be short by how much in Chapter 16?
(a) $30-40 billion
(b) $75-100 billion
(c) $50-60 billion
(d) $10-20 billion

Short Answer Questions

1. What does KDB stand for?

2. Dick Fuld had been pressing what old friend and former Chairman of AIG to put money into Lehman Brothers in Chapter 6?

3. What giant money market fund had “broken the buck a day earlier” in Chapter 17?

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

5. The hedge fund Peloton had been started by what former Goldman executive, according to the author in Chapter 5?

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