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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what date did Lloyd Blankfein arrive in the city where the Goldman Sachs board meeting was to take place in Chapter 9?
(a) October 21, 2007
(b) March 4, 2007
(c) June 27, 2008
(d) November 16, 2008

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

4. John Thain thought in Chapter 14 as he pulled up to the New York Federal Reserve Building that the last time he’d been there was during the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management in what year?
(a) 2005
(b) 1998
(c) 2001
(d) 1993

5. Lloyd Blankfein was waiting to make a speech at what annual conference in the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) The Financial Services Marketing Symposium
(b) The Service Nation Summit
(c) The Underbanked Financial Services Symposium
(d) The Mobile Banking and Commerce Summit

Short Answer Questions

1. After the weekend of meetings of the top bankers and the Fed, they were told that no solution had been found and that the government strongly urged Lehman Brothers to do what in Chapter 15?

2. On what date did Lehman Brothers release its earnings report for the first quarter of 2008?

3. Larry Fink was described in Chapter12 as being from what financial institution?

4. In 2008, AIG had grown into one of the world’s largest financial companies, with more than how much worth of assets on its books?

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

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