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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is the center of the financial world when this book opens?
(a) London.
(b) Washington, DC.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

2. Where does the new Morgan Stanley office open?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington.

3. How long is George Whitney sentenced to Sing Sing for his crime?
(a) Five to ten years.
(b) One to five years.
(c) For life.
(d) He was sentenced only to probation, not to Sing Sing.

4. In what year does the bomb, attributed to anarchists, explode outside Morgan's Wall Street building?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1920.

5. What did the Young Plan deal with?
(a) United States railroads.
(b) German reparation payments.
(c) Repayment of Mexico's debts.
(d) British loans.

6. Who is the wealthiest of the Morgan partners?
(a) Heller.
(b) Mellon.
(c) Lamont.
(d) Brandeis.

7. What country was the Dawes Plan devised to help?
(a) Japan.
(b) France.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Germany.

8. After the 1929 crash of the US stock market, where does the investment market switch to?
(a) Japan.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) England.

9. Baring Brothers and Junius Morgan were principal holders of what type of securities, which were popular in London in 1890?
(a) Argentinean securities.
(b) Railroad securities.
(c) German securities.
(d) Banking securities.

10. Where was George Peabody born?
(a) London, England.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Danvers, Massachusetts.
(d) Paris, France.

11. In 1898 where doesJack Morgan work?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

12. What percentage of Morgan business deals with common stock issues in the 1920s?
(a) Less than 10 percent.
(b) Less than 25 percent.
(c) Less than 3 percent.
(d) Less than 50 percent.

13. Who is the financial wizard of Nazi Germany during the 1930s?
(a) Goring.
(b) Schmidt.
(c) Schacht.
(d) Hitler.

14. How much money are Morgan partners rumored to make in a year?
(a) $500,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $2 million.
(d) $1 million.

15. When is the Richard Whitney and Company suspended from the stock exchange?
(a) March 7, 1938.
(b) January 3, 1938.
(c) October 4, 1938.
(d) December 7, 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Morgan partner S. Parker Gilbert die?

2. When does the stock market hit bottom?

3. By the winter of 1930 how many banks were failing per month?

4. The Glass Steagall Act resulted in the separation of commercial banking from what?

5. Dwight Morrow is appointed Ambassador to what country by President Coolidge?

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