The Wall Street Journal Education Program
Weekly Review & Quiz
Covering front-page articles from May 26-June 1, 2007
Quiz Summer 2007
Developed by: Scott R. Homan Ph.D., Purdue University
1. A fired marketing executive mounted a scathing counterattack on the top brass of _____,
claiming they accepted sweetheart deals, travel and concert tickets from suppliers and engaged in
improper relationships.
a. Target
b. K-Mart
c. Wal-Mart
d. Sears
2. The current Chief Executive of Wal-Mart is:
a. Irwin Jacobs
b. H. Lee Scott
c. Julie Roehm
d. Jack Welch
3. In banking lingo the difference between two interest rates is the:
a. profit
b. loss
c. drop
d. carry
4. Some chalk up ______ to globalization and the availability of cheap labor in places like China,
while others say central-bank policy making has improved.
a. low inflation
b. high inflation
c. low interest rates
d. high interest rates
5. When Massachusetts passed a pioneering law ensuring ______ for virtually all its citizens, it
punted many critical details to an eclectic group of 10 people.
a. jobs
b. free auto insurance
c. health coverage
d. low cost liability insurance
6. Massachusetts is a liberal, wealthy state, with just _____ of its population without health
insurance.
a. 2%
b. 5%
c. 10%
d. 15%
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7. Many persons planning _____ are developing extensive web sites to help convey information to
participants and interested parties.
a. car purchases
b. home purchases
c. weddings
d. 4th grade classroom birthday parties
8. About _____ marriage proposal videos are now on YouTube.
a. 18
b. 180
c. 1,800
d. 1,800,000
9. Dow Jones & Co has been an independent media company for ____ years.
a. 15
b. 25
c. 55
d. 125
10. The ______ wants to buy Dow Jones & Co the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
a. Newspaper Corp
b. News Outlet Corp
c. IBM Corp
d. News Corp
11. Several months ago, Chinese clothing executive Shao Zhuliang got bad news from his U.S.
agent: ______, his biggest customer, wouldn't be placing any orders for the spring 2008 season.
a. Target
b. K-Mart
c. Wal-Mart
d. Sears
12. The term being resurrected to describe disk drives that dispense with spinning disks and instead
store information on flash memory is ____.
a. Solid-state
b. Innards
c. Flash
d. USB
13. Beginning next year, Polo Ralph Lauren Corp will expand further into the mass market with the
launch of moderately priced apparel and home furnishings at 600 ____ stores under the label
American Living.
a. Target
b. K-Mart
c. Wal-Mart
d. JC Penney
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14. "Our dream is a world free of poverty" is a slogan at the _____.
a. Global Bank
b. Wal-Mart Head Quarters
c. Kmart Head Quarters
d. World Bank
15. Messrs Kreinberg and Reinhard were fired from the ______ corporation because they may have
been orchestrating a buyout.
a. JP Morgan
b. Dow
c. Dimon
d. Stanley
16. Wall Streeters spent an inordinate amount of time last week watching to see if the _________
would join the Dow Jones Industrial Average in record territory.
a. Standard & Poor's 100-stock index
b. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index
c. American Exchange 100-stock index
d. American Exchange 500-stock index
17. Investors are _____ -- betting prices will fall by selling borrowed shares -- like never before.
a. putting stocks
b. shorting stocks
c. calling stocks
d. winging stocks
18. With inventories lean, many companies now appear to be ramping up _____.
a. sales
b. advertising
c. production
d. travel plans
19. Activist shareholders, who have needled companies into action in the US and Europe, are
getting more aggressive in _____and in some cases are having an impact.
a. Russia
b. China
c. Japan
d. North Korea
20. Common health problems that affect your golf game include
a. lack of stress management skills
b. lack of flexibility
c. lack of strength in “core” muscles
d. all of the above
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21. Recent outbreaks of serious eye infections among ______ may be tied to a reduced use of
chlorine to decontaminate public water supplies in response to a federal environmental mandate,
according to a team of Chicago doctors who discovered the latest eye problems.
a. the elderly
b. contact-lens users
c. public pool users
d. school children
22. Companies are offering relationship courses to help employees
a. discuss their most intimate marital problems in front of their co-workers
b. be more effective workers by reducing relationship stress
c. learn better communication skills that also be used in the workplace
d. both b and c
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