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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who encouraged Marc Rich to quit college and become a trader?
(a) James Miller.
(b) Michael Skawinski.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Henry Rothschild.

2. What distant cousin of the Philipp Brothers was dispatched to help run the U.S. offices?
(a) Marc Rich.
(b) Ludwig Jesselson.
(c) Edmond Mantell.
(d) Pincus Green.

3. How many of the forty sought-after metals were traded openly?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

4. The price of silver rose how many cents an ounce following the rumor in Chapter 2?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 10.

5. What does the author write that investors were not aware that every industry in the world was driven by in Chapter 1?
(a) Metal.
(b) Greed.
(c) Oil.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes in Chapter 1 that metal trading was a shadowy world in which huge amounts of money were traded and, to play in that arena, one had to be "extremely smart, stupid or " what?

2. What building did Philipp Brothers occupy five floors of in New York?

3. What happened to the U.S. dollar in trading following the rumor's circulation in Chapter 2?

4. What is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany?

5. What company did Marc Rich buy as a tax shelter to hide his massive cash assets?

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