Quiz · Lessons from a Market Crash

Question 1What is the main idea of this listening passage?

Advice on buying houses during a crisis The causes and lessons of the 2008 market crash How governments create new banks The daily work of nervous investors

Question 2According to the listening, what helped start the crisis?

Banks lending money to people who could not pay it back Investors keeping too much cash at home Companies investing too much in research Governments raising taxes on house prices

Question 3What happened to investors who stayed calm during the crash?

They lost their jobs within two years They sold all their shares at low prices They recovered most of their losses They moved their money into foreign banks