The Stock Market Crash

What is a 'stock'?

• A share of ownership of the company

• A loan to the company

• Full ownership of the company

The actual name of the 'American Stock Exchange' is: 

• The New York Stock Exchange

• The American Stock Exchange

• NASDAQ

What is the Dow Jones Industrials? 

• An average of 30 blue chip companies on the Stock Exchange

• A company that makes steel

• A conglomerate of industrial companies

• A newspaper covering the stock market

Which is true about the Dow Jones throughout the 20's?

• It went consistently up

• It went consistently down

• It fluctuated up and down

True or False: No one saw the Crash coming

• True

• False

What happened on 'Black Tuesday'?

• The Dow fell 30 points losing 12% of it's value

• The Dow went up by 30 points

• The Dow fell but ended up by 30 points

How much was lost over 2 days?

• 30 billion dollars

• 30 million dollars

• 100 billion dollars

• 100,000 dollars

Which is correct about this statement: Black Tuesday was the last big slump in the Stock Market.

• False, it continued to have 'crashes' throughout the year and into the following 3 years

• False, there was another 30 billion a week later

• True, that's what happened

How long did it take the US economy to recover?

• 10 years

• 5 years

• It's still recovering

• Until World War 2

Why did it take the Stock Market so long to recover?

• Investors had lost faith in it and didn't want to risk their money

• The damage was too severe

• It actually took a reasonable amount of time to recover