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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim Massey is a member of Salomon Brothers executive committee in charge of sales and presides over _____, which directly affects the future of all trainees.
(a) Testing sites.
(b) The job placement blackboard.
(c) The break room surveillance cameras.
(d) Paper evaluations.

2. Wall Street has a river at one end and a ______ at the other.
(a) Pot of gold.
(b) Train station.
(c) Graveyard.
(d) Cesspool.

3. In any market, as in any poker game, there is a ______.
(a) Sociopath.
(b) Fool.
(c) Scapegoat.
(d) Ringleader.

4. Bond prices move _____ to interest rates after 1979.
(a) Parallel.
(b) Unrelated.
(c) Inversely.
(d) Cyclically.

5. In the bond market, unlike the stock market, ______ are not openly stated.
(a) Share quantities.
(b) Commissions.
(c) Interest rates.
(d) Taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker who eventually wins the hearts and minds of the back row in the Salomon Brothers training program describes the trading floor as a _____.

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

3. What floor at Salomon brothers is said to have low ceilings, no windows, and the charm of an engine room?

4. There are 287 books about bonds in the New York Public Library and most of them are about _____.

5. Lewis states that analysts don't analyze anything; they are just _____ to corporate financiers.

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