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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lloyd Blankfein was waiting to make a keynote address following whose speech in Chapter 14?
(a) Ben Bernanke’s
(b) Arnold Swarzanegger’s
(c) Michael Bloomberg’s
(d) Timothy Geithner’s

2. Who was described as the head of Northern Trust in Chapter 17?
(a) Charlie Scharf
(b) Skip McGee
(c) John Thain
(d) Rick Waddell

3. What critic for Architecture Magazine, wrote of the New York Federal Reserve Building in 1927 that the three-year-old building had “a quality which, for lack of a better word, I can best describe as epic”?
(a) Vikram Pandit
(b) Gao Xiqing
(c) Jean-Claude Trichet
(d) Margaret Law

4. Jim Cracchiolo was described as the head of what institution in Chapter 17?
(a) Morgan Stanley
(b) Brysam Global Partners
(c) Greenlight Capital
(d) Ameriprise

5. Under whose guidance did Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley receive status as bank holding companies in Chapter 18?
(a) Colm Kelleher’s
(b) John Mack’s
(c) Barry Zubrow’s
(d) Timothy Geithner’s

6. Who did Dick Fuld ask to put in a word with the Korean bank for Lehman Brothers in Chapter 10?
(a) Greg Fleming
(b) David Faber
(c) Jim Wilkinson
(d) Hank Paulson

7. When did Bob Willumstad accept the position of CEO of AIG?
(a) August, 2006
(b) March, 2007
(c) November, 2005
(d) June, 2008

8. As part of the plan for dealing with AIG’s problems, Bob Willumstad would be replaced as CEO of AIG by who, according to the author in Chapter 16?
(a) Robert Scully
(b) Ed Liddy
(c) Eliot Spitzer
(d) Lewis Glucksman

9. Mitsubishi is a group of companies based in what country?
(a) Japan
(b) Cambodia
(c) South Korea
(d) China

10. Lloyd Blankfein was waiting to make a speech in Chapter 14 that discussed Goldman Sachs’ nonprofit program that fostered business and management education for whom?
(a) The elderly
(b) Children
(c) Minorities
(d) Women

11. Who was the Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley in Chapter 14?
(a) Vikram Pandit
(b) John Mack
(c) Colm Kelleher
(d) Anthony Ryan

12. What is the common name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation?
(a) Freddie Mac
(b) Ameriprise
(c) Peloton
(d) Morgan Stanley

13. What does FDIC stand for?
(a) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(b) Financial Deposit Insurance Company
(c) Fiscal Depreciation Investment Corporation
(d) Federal Denomination Investment Clause

14. Who did Dick Fuld contact at the Federal Reserve about Lehman Brothers possibly becoming a bank company in Chapter 10?
(a) Barry Zubrow
(b) Bob Hoyt
(c) Timothy Geithner
(d) Rick Lazio

15. Who was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets of the Treasury in Chapter 11?
(a) Lloyd Blankfein
(b) Anthony Ryan
(c) Bob Steel
(d) Ron Beller

Short Answer Questions

1. What does CIC stand for?

2. 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?”

3. What was referred to as “the good bank-bad bank plan” that McDade was thinking of announcing in Chapter 12?

4. AIG was scheduled to report what losses in its second quarter in Chapter 11?

5. Who was described as the Managing Director of Westwood Capital LLC in Chapter 11?

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