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    Hetty Green, known as "The Witch of Wall Street", was a famous American financier who learned about money from a young age. She inherited $1 million from her father when he died and turned it into over $100 million through savvy investments on the New York Stock Exchange. Despite her wealth, she lived frugally and avoided spending money or paying taxes whenever possible. She died after having a stroke during an argument in a shop about the high price of milk.

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    Hetty Green, known as "The Witch of Wall Street", was a famous American financier who learned about money from a young age. She inherited $1 million from her father when he died and turned it into over $100 million through savvy investments on the New York Stock Exchange. Despite her wealth, she lived frugally and avoided spending money or paying taxes whenever possible. She died after having a stroke during an argument in a shop about the high price of milk.

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    Hetty Green, known as "The Witch of Wall Street", was a famous American financier who learned about money from a young age. She inherited $1 million from her father when he died and turned it into over $100 million through savvy investments on the New York Stock Exchange. Despite her wealth, she lived frugally and avoided spending money or paying taxes whenever possible. She died after having a stroke during an argument in a shop about the high price of milk.

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    Hetty Green, known as "The Witch of Wall Street", was a famous American financier who learned about money from a young age. She inherited $1 million from her father when he died and turned it into over $100 million through savvy investments on the New York Stock Exchange. Despite her wealth, she lived frugally and avoided spending money or paying taxes whenever possible. She died after having a stroke during an argument in a shop about the high price of milk.

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    The Witch of Wall Street - Quiz

    1) When did Hetty learn all about money? 15) Why did she only wash the bottom of the
    She learned all about money when she was young. dress?
    She washed it to save soap.
    2) What did she read to her father?
    She read the financial pages of the newspaper. 16) Did she have her own office?
    No, she didn’t.
    3) How old was she when her father died?
    She was 30 when he died. 17) What did she use in the bank?
    She used a desk.
    4) How much did she inherit?
    She inherited one million dollars. 18) What did she buy and sell in the bank?
    She bought and sold shares.
    5)How much did she leave her children when she
    died? 19) How old was she when she got married?
    She left them 100 million dollars. She was 33.

    6) Was she a financial genious? 20) What did she do when her husband lost all
    Yes, she was. his money?
    She left him.
    7) Where did she make her money?
    She made it at the New York Stock Exchange. 21) What did her son injure?
    He injured his knee.
    8) Why did people call her the Witch of Wall
    Street? 22) Where did she take him?
    They called her so because she made money She took him to a free hospital for poor people.
    easily.
    23) What did the doctor know?
    9) Was she generous? He knew that she had money.
    No, she wasn’t.
    24) What happened after that?
    10) Did she spend a lot of money? He asked her for money, she refused and took
    No, she didn’t. the boy away. His leg didn’t get better, 2 years
    later doctors removed it.
    11)Why didn’t she have a house?
    Because she didn’t pay taxes. 25) How did she die?
    She had a stroke after an argument with a shop
    12) Where did she and her children live? assistant about the price of a bottle of milk.
    They lived in cheap hotels.
    26) How did Ned spend his legacy?
    13)How much did she spend on clothes? He spent it all on parties, jewellery and holidays.
    She spent almost nothing on clothes.

    14) What did she wear everyday?


    She wore the same long black dress.

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