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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Hank Paulson succeed as Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs?
(a) Jon Corzine
(b) Gerald Donini
(c) David Einhorn
(d) Jamie Dimon

2. According to the author in Chapter 5, David Einhorn was a hedge manager controlling over how much money in assets?
(a) $3 billion
(b) $12 billion
(c) $10 billion
(d) $6 billion

3. Gerald Donini asserts when speaking with Jim Cramer in Chapter 5 that he felt the real problem in the marketplace wasn’t short-selling, but what?
(a) Naked-shorting
(b) Derivatives
(c) Subprime lending
(d) Stocks

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

5. What was the largest and most prestigious investment bank in the nation that Jamie Dimon advised his staff could possibly file bankruptcy in the Prologue?
(a) Barclays
(b) Wachovia
(c) Goldman Sachs
(d) Wells Fargo

Short Answer Questions

1. Hank Paulson joined Goldman Sachs covering large industrial companies in the Midwest in what year?

2. The hedge fund Peloton had been started by what former Goldman executive, according to the author in Chapter 5?

3. Who nominated Hank Paulson to his post in the federal cabinet?

4. Where was Dick Fuld visiting when he received an urgent call from Henry Paulson regarding the collapse of the fifth largest investment bank in the U.S., according to the author in Chapter 1?

5. On what morning does the author describe Jamie Dimon awakening after an emergency meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with a dozen of his rival Wall Street CEOs in the beginning of the Prologue?

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