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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. London Morgan Guaranty Limited is renamed to what?
(a) Morgan Grenfell.
(b) JP Morgan Securities.
(c) Morgan Stanley.
(d) JP Morgan and Company.

2. Who becomes president of the new JP Morgan corporation?
(a) Monty Norman.
(b) George Whitney.
(c) Jack Morgan.
(d) Tom Lamont.

3. Who is Siegmund Warburg?
(a) A Hamburg banker.
(b) A German industrialist.
(c) A London banker.
(d) A client of Morgan Grenfell.

4. What Senator begins to investigate petrodollars in 1975?
(a) John Edwards.
(b) Edward Kennedy.
(c) John Murphy.
(d) Frank Church.

5. Who becomes the first Jew to be hired at Morgan Stanley and also the second youngest partner in Morgan history?
(a) Lewis Berstein.
(b) Robert Baldwin.
(c) Robert Bradford.
(d) Lewis Bernard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Morgan Bank move in 1989?

2. Who is Walter Funk?

3. What is the bone of contention between the New York and London Morgan firms?

4. Who heads the Corporate Finance Department of Morgan Grenfell?

5. Who succeeds Leffingwell as chairman of Morgan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the result on profits when the SEC prohibits fixed commissions on stock trade in 1975?

2. In late 1988, what is Morgan Grenfell's major strength?

3. Why does England sign the Munich Pact and what other countries signed?

4. Why does US District Attorney Rudolph Giuliani criticize Morgan Stanley for the inside trading scandal involving Stephen Sui-Kwan Wang, Jr. even though Morgan Stanley was not involved?

5. What makes it impossible for Morgan Stanley to service large investors who trade large blocks for other blocks?

6. What happens at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944?

7. How does Morgan find out about Tony Gebauer's embezzlement?

8. How big is the trust operation of Morgan Guaranty after its merger?

9. What company does Morgan merge with, and what is the resulting company?

10. Who outmaneuvers Morgan Grenfell on the British Aluminum deal?

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