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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Bob Willumstad’s partner in starting a private-equity fund after he left Citigroup?
(a) Marge Magner
(b) Gerald Donini
(c) Scott Friedheim
(d) Sandy Weill

2. What critic for Architecture Magazine, wrote of the New York Federal Reserve Building in 1927 that the three-year-old building had “a quality which, for lack of a better word, I can best describe as epic”?
(a) Vikram Pandit
(b) Jean-Claude Trichet
(c) Gao Xiqing
(d) Margaret Law

3. How old was Scott Friedheim described by the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 53
(b) 36
(c) 42
(d) 29

4. From which hedge fund mogul had Scott Friedheim recently bought a black GMC Denali outfitted with internet access and a chauffeur in Chapter 6?
(a) David Einhorn
(b) Michael Bloomberg
(c) Eddie Lampert
(d) Cornelius Vander Starr

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, Geithner kept Jamie Dimon from abandoning the negotiations with Bear Stearns by working out a deal where the Federal Reserve lent money to Bear Stearns through JP Morgan, guaranteeing Morgan against how much in losses?
(a) $29 billion
(b) $5 billion
(c) $18 billion
(d) $14 billion

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was described as the President of Merrill Lynch in Chapter 13?

2. What refers to a security interest in real property held by a lender as a security for a debt?

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

4. On what date does the author describe Bart McDade and Alex Kirk arriving in Dick Fuld’s office in the beginning of Chapter 13?

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, Bob Steel knew he would face scrutiny from which U.S. senator who opposed government intervention in the markets?

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