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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asked Howie Hubler for money owed Deutsche Bank on the CDOs purchased from Hubler in Chapter 9?
(a) Bernie Madoff.
(b) John Mack.
(c) Greg Lippmann.
(d) James Wilson.

2. Asperger's syndrome differs from other autistic disorders by its relative preservation of development in what areas?
(a) Linguistic and cognitive.
(b) Cognitive and spacial.
(c) Coordination and Linguistic.
(d) Linguistic.

3. The first night of the conference in Chapter 6, Steve Eisman found himself attending a dinner thrown by what company?
(a) Deutsche Bank.
(b) Wachovia.
(c) Moody's.
(d) Oppenheimer and Co.

4. When did Scion Capital open business?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2000.

5. When did John Gutfreund become managing partner of Salomon Brothers?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1987.

6. At the conference in Chapter 6, Charlie Ledley found himself being courted by what company and chiefly ignored by most of the other conference attendees?
(a) AIG FP.
(b) Standard & Poor's.
(c) Morgan Stanley.
(d) Bear Stearns.

7. In Chapter 10, one of whose partners had a panic attack as he tried to keep his eye on the investments his fund had made in shorting the Wall Street banks?
(a) Andrew Warner's.
(b) James Jackson's.
(c) Steve Eisman's.
(d) Michael Lewis'.

8. After the conference in Chapters 6 and 7, who began buying millions of CDOs, anxious to buy as many as they could before it was too late?
(a) Ledley and Eismann.
(b) Mai and Hockett.
(c) Eismann, Burry, and Hockett.
(d) Ledley, Mai, and Hockett.

9. FrontPoint Partners is a subsidiary of what company?
(a) Morgan Stanley.
(b) Wachovia.
(c) Bear Sterns.
(d) Merrill Lynch.

10. On what date does the author write the face of Wall Street changed in Chapter 10?
(a) October 31, 2007.
(b) September 18, 2008.
(c) August 4, 2007.
(d) June 3, 2006.

11. Howie Hubler was a bond trader for what company in Chapter 9?
(a) Merrill Lynch.
(b) Bear Sterns.
(c) Wachovia.
(d) Morgan Stanley.

12. At the conference in Chapter 6, Charlie Ledley spoke a man from what company that would eventually do business with Ledley's hedge fund?
(a) Bear Stearns.
(b) Morgan Stanley.
(c) Wachovia.
(d) AIG FP.

13. The top bond traders of the 1980s called themselves by what nickname, becoming inspiration for the books The Bonfire of the Vanities and Liar's Poker?
(a) "The Doctor Zivagos".
(b) "Wall Street Men".
(c) "Men in Black".
(d) "Big Swinging Dicks".

14. In his Epilogue, what does the author amount to billion dollar gifts paid for by the American people?
(a) The national parks.
(b) Government bailouts.
(c) The bond market.
(d) Tax revenues.

15. How much did Morgan Stanley settle with Deutsche Bank on the CDOs purchased from Hubler in Chapter 9?
(a) $600 million.
(b) $350 million.
(c) $750 million.
(d) $450 milllion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Michael Burry found that his reports to his investors were appearing more and more bleak because of his heavy investment in what?

2. For what quickly flagging Wall Street firm was Eisman invited to make a speech in Chapter 10?

3. During Eisman's speech for a quickly flagging Wall Street firm in Chapter 10, stocks in the company fell by more than how many points?

4. The first night of the conference in Chapter 6, Steve Eisman was seated next to a man who was a CDO manager for what company?

5. When was Eisman invited to make a speech to support a quickly flagging Wall Street firm in Chapter 10?

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