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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gutfreund's first love is ______.
(a) Posing for photo ops.
(b) Managing.
(c) Philosophizing.
(d) Trading.

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

3. For a great player of Liar's Poker, ______ is the easy part of the game.
(a) Lying.
(b) Reading people.
(c) Science.
(d) Math.

4. One of the major incentives that legislators create to encourage the borrowing of money is the _____ of mortgage payments.
(a) Variability.
(b) Price reduction.
(c) Investment advantage.
(d) Tax deductibility.

5. The code of Liar's Poker is something like the code of the ______.
(a) Silent.
(b) Marine.
(c) Mason.
(d) Gunslinger.

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

7. Bob Dall and Stephen Joseph create the first _____ of mortgage securities.
(a) Successful recall.
(b) Legislative block.
(c) Public offering.
(d) Private issue.

8. People who do imitations of Michael Mortara often sound like _____.
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Jimmy Swaggert.
(c) Marlon Brando.
(d) Walter Cronkite.

9. Which publication calls John Gutfreund the "King of Wall Street"?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) Forbes.
(c) Barron's.
(d) Business Week.

10. The senior mortgage traders maintain that their abuse of trainees leads to _____.
(a) Better workers.
(b) Lawsuits.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) More money.

11. What aspect of the dollar bill is the integral component of Liar's Poker?
(a) The serial number.
(b) The owner.
(c) The mint.
(d) The year.

12. For the author, the stigma of getting a job through connections is worse than the stigma of ______.
(a) Unemployment.
(b) Starting at the bottom.
(c) Getting a PhD.
(d) Waiting tables.

13. There are 287 books about bonds in the New York Public Library and most of them are about _____.
(a) Chemistry.
(b) A British spy.
(c) Junk Bonds.
(d) Family ties.

14. Rich Shuster is a thrift salesman in which Salomon Brothers office before coming to work for Ranieri?
(a) London.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Dallas.

15. What is it called when an interviewer asks an applicant to open a high-rise window that can't be opened in a job interview?
(a) Trapped rat syndrome.
(b) The stress interview.
(c) Exit analysis.
(d) Hazing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What practice eventually cripples Salomon Brothers?

2. In 1986, forty percent of Yale's graduating class apply to which bank?

3. Where was the author born and raised?

4. The author describes England as the land of ________.

5. The author thinks that all money men either have ______ hair or are bald.

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