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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new employees all enjoy during the training?

2. What investment bank did Troob secure a job with?

3. What place did the recruiters think was appropriate to take Troob, Rolfe, and others?

4. The first section of the pitch book did what of the following?

5. What did investment banking begin as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the social events, traveling, and horrible work hours do to Troob?

2. What did Rolfe dread more, small business trips or the road show?

3. When attempting to leave DLJ, how were the two men persuaded to stay?

4. How is the rest of a typical investment firm situated? Who comprises the upper sects of the company?

5. Unfortunately, for the associates, how did they usually learn that they had to bribe the copy center?

6. What causes multiple versions and edits of the pitch book to be made? Even hours before the presentation?

7. What is involved in a research analysts job?

8. If a company is over valued by an investment bank, what eventually happened?

9. How did Rolfe and Troob describe top tier business schools throughout the novel?

10. Explain the daily routine of a first year associate at DLJ.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although it might not seem as though the book was written with a lot of literary devices, foreshadowing is used quite a lot.

List and describe four times in which foreshadowing occurs throughout the book.

Also answer, what particular event is being foreshadows.

Essay Topic 2

1. Compare pre-SEC 1920's investment banking to present day investment banks. Consider:

2. How have SEC regulations changed investment banking? Do you think the regulations are enough?

3. How has the role of the investment banker changed?

Essay Topic 3

Bribery and greed are large motivations for various people to do their jobs. Pick 2 characters from the list below and describe how either bribery or greed is essential to get their job done:

- Copy Center

- Word Processors

- John Rolfe

- Peter Troob

- Perrentazzi

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