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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Financial.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Mining.

2. A typical pattern in the ____________ century is that a community builds up around a few pioneers who leave their homeland and then encourage friends and relatives to join them.
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Nineteenth.
(c) Seventeenth.
(d) Sixteenth.

3. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?
(a) The deceased president of Liz Claiborne.
(b) The deceased CEO of Intel.
(c) The deceased chairman of Coca-Cola.
(d) The deceased chairman of Applebee's.

4. With whom does Carnegie form Columbia Oil Company?
(a) Willard Coleman.
(b) William Coleman.
(c) Wallece Coleman.
(d) Wilson Coleman.

5. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?
(a) New World.
(b) His friend's.
(c) Old World.
(d) His parent's.

Short Answer Questions

1. When his father dies in 1855, Andrew calls him what?

2. From 1867 through 1872, Andrew Carnegie joins the expansion trend by manipulating what stock to promote $30 million in stocks and bonds in Europe?

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

4. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?

5. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the jobs of the railroad managers?

2. What agreement is made between the triumvirate and James L. Shaw?

3. How is Pittsburgh important at this time?

4. Describe the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865.

5. What does Carnegie learn at the Pennsylvania Railroad?

6. Describe the informal investing triumvirate Carnegie formed with Thomson and Scott.

7. How does Carnegie determine he can profit from the boom in telegraphy?

8. How is Carnegie cautious in his investments? How might this help him throughout his career?

9. What does Daniel McCallum offer those in management?

10. How does Andrew benefit from his work delivering telegraph messages?

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