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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Adult Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The trainee who finally asks a question at Massey's training session wonders if Salomon Brothers will open an office in what city?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Prague.
(c) Rome.
(d) Montreal.

2. What is the name of an interview technique designed to test an applicant's nerve?
(a) The silent treatment.
(b) The yell test.
(c) Direct humiliation.
(d) Instant recall command.

3. Traders prove their superiority in a Wall Street firm every day by doing what?
(a) Handling risk.
(b) Taking long lunches.
(c) Managing trainees.
(d) Destroying companies.

4. Which leading bond analyst from Salomon Brothers gives a speech at the Wharton School about how he can't get women to pay attention to him at cocktail parties?
(a) John Meriwether.
(b) Myron Samuels.
(c) Sidney Homer.
(d) John Gutfreund.

5. What is photocopied 126 times from The New York Times and distributed among the trainees each morning?
(a) The business section.
(b) The front page.
(c) The crossword puzzle.
(d) The comic section.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gutfreund's first love is ______.

2. Lewis thinks Henry Kaufman is the guru of he bond market and also the _____ of Salomon Brothers.

3. Jim Massey is considered Gutfreund's _____.

4. Where does the important dinner that the author is invited to take place?

5. In any market, as in any poker game, there is a ______.

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