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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master Builder: A Structure of Steel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He follows a policy of putting all his eggs in the same basket and doing what?
(a) Watching it.
(b) Forgetting about it.
(c) Worrying about it.
(d) Ignoring it.

2. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

3. The triumvirate agrees to sell at once for what reason?
(a) They want to get rid of shares.
(b) It is the most logical plan.
(c) There are no better offers.
(d) Since it has no dollar investment in the transaction.

4. Carnegie, acting under Scott-Thomson proxies, now owns how much of Pacific and Atlantic for the start-up Keystone Telegraph?
(a) One eighth.
(b) One third.
(c) One fourth.
(d) One half.

5. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie meets John Piper in 1856 in order to build _______ bridges, instead of wooden bridges that can be set afire from locomotive sparks and are not cost-effective beyond a certain span and load factor.

2. Along with Shinn, they put together an effective team based on Carnegie's systematic analysis of personnel to provide performance incentives that raise __________ men through ranks to share ownership.

3. The business is _______________ with conductors and station agents collecting millions in small coin revenue.

4. Who is the cornerstone of Carnegie's fortune, followed in 1861 by Columbia Oil?

5. Carnegie sells _____________ bonds to Junius Morgan in London to complete construction of the Edgar Thomson Works in 1875, and saves 25 percent in costs from the depression.

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