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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the largest and most prestigious investment bank in the nation that Jamie Dimon advised his staff could possibly file bankruptcy in the Prologue?
(a) Barclays
(b) Wachovia
(c) Goldman Sachs
(d) Wells Fargo

2. John Thain is described in Chapter 7 as having worked for Henry Paulson at Goldman Sachs and then as CEO of what company?
(a) Berkshire Hathaway
(b) The New York Stock Exchange
(c) Citigroup
(d) The International Monetary Fund

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, Scott Friedheim was an executive in whose mold?
(a) Arnold Swarzanegger’s
(b) Ben Bernanke’s
(c) Warren Buffett’s
(d) Joe Gregory’s

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

5. What was the name of Lehman Brothers’ bomb-sniffing Labrador described in Chapter 5?
(a) Bella
(b) Ducky
(c) Sassy
(d) Tenaya

6. Gerald Donini asserts when speaking with Jim Cramer in Chapter 5 that he felt the real problem in the marketplace wasn’t short-selling, but what?
(a) Naked-shorting
(b) Subprime lending
(c) Derivatives
(d) Stocks

7. Who was Dick Fuld’s Chief Strategy Officer in Chapter 6?
(a) John F. Rogers
(b) Jim Cramer
(c) David Goldfarb
(d) Lloyd Blankfein

8. According to the author in Chapter 5, Jim Cramer, a media star, was solidly Harvard and counted as one of his best friends which individual called “the bane of Wall Street”?
(a) Jim Cracchiolo
(b) Eliot Spitzer
(c) Ron Beller
(d) Kevin Warsh

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

10. According to the author in Chapter 5, Dick Fuld “said that he had become convinced that two of the nation’s most powerful financiers were largely responsible for both the short raid and rumor mongering.” Who were these financiers?
(a) Steven A. Cohen and Kenneth C. Griffin
(b) Lloyd Blankfein and Andrew Gowers
(c) David Goldfarb and Scott Friedheim
(d) Dan Alpert and Bart McDade

11. When was Warren Buffett born?
(a) 1930
(b) 1925
(c) 1918
(d) 1941

12. Who did Dick Fuld choose as his right-hand-man when he became CEO of a leading global financial services firm?
(a) Joe Gregory
(b) David Trone
(c) Edward Liddy
(d) Bob Kelly

13. On what date did Lehman Brothers release its earnings report for the first quarter of 2008?
(a) March 18, 2008
(b) June 22, 2008
(c) April 1, 2009
(d) February 6, 2008

14. Who was the Chief Financial Officer of Lehman Brothers that presented the earnings report for the first quarter of 2008?
(a) Erin Callan
(b) Skip McGee
(c) Barry Zubrow
(d) David Einhorn

15. John Thain went to Michael Bloomberg and proposed that Bloomberg buy back what percent of his company from the bank in Chapter 7?
(a) 20%
(b) 10%
(c) 50%
(d) 35%

Short Answer Questions

1. John Thain was described as the CEO of which investment banking and wealth management firm in Chapter 7?

2. Who did Hank Paulson succeed as Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, Henry Paulson called and informed Dick Fuld that Bear Stearns collapsed and would be bought by what investment company?

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

5. In what year did Hank Paulson become a partner at Goldman Sachs?

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