Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Edwin Lefèvre
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Edwin Lefèvre
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do customers at a bucket shop do?
(a) Bet on a stock going up or down.
(b) Play the lottery.
(c) Buy stock.
(d) Buy feed buckets.

2. What fascinates the young Livingston?
(a) How people bet.
(b) Why people come to bucket shops.
(c) The patterns on the ticker tape.
(d) The way the stocks move up and down.

3. How does Livingston play on the market when he returns from St. Louis?
(a) Confidently.
(b) Cautiously.
(c) Carelessly.
(d) Frantically.

4. Why does it take Livingston so long to understand how to trade?
(a) He hates to study hard.
(b) He enjoys it so much he doesn't pay attention.
(c) He is too confident in his own methods.
(d) He won't listen to his mentor.

5. Why should a trader start with a small trade?
(a) To find out if the stock is viable.
(b) To see if it's going in the right direction.
(c) So he'll lose less money.
(d) To see what others are doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Livingston decide from the Union Pacific situation?

2. What does Livingston discuss at the beginning of this chapter about stocks?

3. When does a trader err when trading?

4. Why does Livingston return to Boston?

5. What does the phrase "go short" mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Livingston say makes a successful stock trader?

2. Why is Livingston still losing money on Wall Street?

3. What do customers in bucket shops do?

4. What commodities has Livingston been trading and how is that going?

5. What does Livingston do with Roberts suggestion?

6. What does Livingston say about trading every day?

7. Why does Livingston return to Boston and what happens when he does?

8. What's the difference between trading on Wall Street and bucket shops and how does it affect Livingston?

9. What happens when Livingston first comes back from St. Louis?

10. What lesson does Livingston finally learn about markets?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 815 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.