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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Pierpont dies, who becomes the Morgan's manager on a day-to-day basis?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Harry Davison.
(c) George Perkins.
(d) Jack Morgan.

3. Where is the Morgan ancestral home?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) London, England.
(c) Hartford, Connecticut.
(d) New York, New York.

4. Who opposes Mussolini in the press?
(a) Jimmy Jones.
(b) Charles Dere.
(c) Arthur Pearson.
(d) Walter Lippmann.

5. The Morgans were instrumental in helping Sosthenes Behn build what?
(a) International Telephone and Telegraph.
(b) The Alleghany Corporation.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A company building.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money are Morgan partners rumored to make in a year?

2. In 1923 Morgan forges ties with what leading Japanese bank?

3. Where do the Wall Street firms meet on July 31, 1914, when the European markets close?

4. During the 1920s how did corporations generally finance corporate expansion?

5. In the 1920s the economic boom basically occurred in what economic or financial sector?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Glass Steagall Act?

2. What are holding companies and are the Morgans involved?

3. What does the US credibility in London and European markets depend on?

4. When World War I begins, what are the positions of the US government and the House of Morgan?

5. What causes a feud between the two Morgan partners, Morrow and Lamont?

6. What is the general economic status in the United States when the book opens in 1835?

7. What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

8. How do the Morgan partners come to finance Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis flight?

9. After Britain goes off the gold standard in 1919, who wants them back on the gold standard and why?

10. In 1924 what are the House of Morgan ties with the candidates?

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