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Are You Financially Savvy?

Answer the following quiz to the best of your knowledge using information you have gathered along your stock market journey.

Question #1

What is the Stock Market?

a) The Stock Market is a market where people buy products which the merchants have a lot of stock of.

b) The Stock Market is a market where people can buy stocks which are shares of companies.

c) The Stock Market is a market where people bet on race horses to gain some money.

Question #2

What does the bear and the bull stand for?

a) They are signs that the Stock Market is opened and closed.

b) The bear means stocks are falling and the bull means stocks are going up.

c) The bear means stocks are rising and the bull means stocks are falling.

Question #3

What is the meaning of NYSE?

a) New York Shares Exchange

b) New York Sheep Exchange

c) New York Stock Exchange

d) New York Sugar Exchange

Question #4

Where was the first stock exchange in the United States?

a) Boston, Mass.

b) New York, N.Y.

c) Philadelphia, Pa.

d) Washington, D.C.

Question #5

What was the first listed company on the NYSE?

a) Nationwide Insurance

b) Prudential

c) Merrill Lynch

d) Bank of New York

Question #6

What's the largest stock exchange in the world, in terms of market capitalization (basically, the total value of all listed companies)?

a) New York Stock Exchange

b) Tokyo Stock Exchange

c) London Stock Exchange

d) Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Question #7

What was the first totally electronic stock market?

a) London Stock Exchange

b) NASDAQ

c) NYSE

d) Tokyo Stock Exchange

Question #8

Which federal agency is responsible for regulating the stock markets?

a) Federal Trade Commission

b) Securities and Exchange Commission

c) Federal Reserve System

Question #9

A payment made by a corporation to its shareholder members is called a

a) retained earnings

b) surplus

c) profit

d) dividend

Question #10

What is an income statement?

a) A statement of the profits and losses of a company

b) Part of a financial statement

c) A statement that summarizes revenues and expenses of a firm over a time period

d) All of the above

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Are You Financially Savvy?

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