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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 5, Jim Cramer, a media star, was solidly Harvard and counted as one of his best friends which individual called “the bane of Wall Street”?
(a) Kevin Warsh
(b) Eliot Spitzer
(c) Jim Cracchiolo
(d) Ron Beller

2. In what year does the author state Long-Term Capital Management blew up in Chapter 5?
(a) 1996
(b) 1995
(c) 1998
(d) 1999

3. Who was described as the Managing Director of Westwood Capital LLC in Chapter 11?
(a) David Goldfarb
(b) Dick Fuld
(c) Dan Alpert
(d) David Einhorn

4. Regarding the problems at AIG, the plan that was finally put in place was for the government to take over 80% of AIG in exchange for a loan of how much?
(a) $25 billion
(b) $85 billion
(c) $60 billion
(d) $150 billion

5. Who was described in Chapter 17 as “a thirty-eight-year-old governor at the Federal Reserve, whose office was a few doors down from Bernanke’s”?
(a) Rick Waddell
(b) Kevin Warsh
(c) Brian Moynihan
(d) Jeb Mason

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author say Gerald Domini lived in Chapter 5?

2. Henry Paulson cut his meeting short with the bankers in Chapter 11 because he was going with his family to attend the Olympic Games where?

3. What giant money market fund had “broken the buck a day earlier” in Chapter 17?

4. AIG was scheduled to report what losses in its second quarter in Chapter 11?

5. What British heist movie does the author describe Dick Fuld and the Lehman team watching as they returned from Seoul in Chapter 11?

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