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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Climb Ends.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The industrial economy is crippled with some __________________ firms failing over six years.
(a) 5,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 120.
(d) 1,200.

2. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?
(a) He gets injured.
(b) He gets a college scholarship.
(c) He gets promoted to a management position.
(d) He gets an office opportunity in accounting.

3. One of the country's largest banking houses Jay Cooke's collapses, credit structures tumble and _____________ businesses fail in a year.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 500.

4. Carnegie promotes expanding with other Pennsylvania-controlled franchises through Scott and assures construction in his contracting business by bartering Pacific stock for construction costs with ___________ exchange rates.
(a) 5 and 7 to one.
(b) 3 and 4 to one.
(c) 3 and 5 to one.
(d) 2 and 4 to one.

5. What does Andrew dislike about the oil business that seems beyond control of management until the 1880s and Rockefeller?
(a) The fluctuation of price.
(b) The smell, messiness and waste.
(c) The instability of the economy.
(d) The destructive properties of oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"

2. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?

3. Carnegie corrects this deficiency by integrating _______________________.

4. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?

5. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.

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