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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. Beginning in 1872, Carnegie focuses on the single project of his steel-rail rolling mill that is completed in _________.
(a) 1903.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1883.

2. During the nineteenth century American railroads are financed by bonds with over ____ percent of their earnings used to pay bond interest.
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

3. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Youngstown.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Cleveland.

4. Who is the cornerstone of Carnegie's fortune, followed in 1861 by Columbia Oil?
(a) Woodruff.
(b) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(c) Coleman.
(d) Pullman.

5. Success is due to the first president, ________________, and the superintendent of the western division, Tom Scott, who brings Andrew Carnegie into the modern system of train control.
(a) J. Edgar Johnson.
(b) J. Edgar Smith.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) J. Edgar Thomson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The size and complexity of a railroad business requires creation of bureaucratic organization, structure, and what else?

2. Pennsylvania Railroad buys from the Woodruff venture and offers what when borrowing?

3. 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.

4. Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads each have ________ thousand employees trained into a disciplined workforce.

5. Carnegie uses $11,000 in Woodruff dividends to buy 1,100 shares that pay $17,800 in their first year and eventually over _________ dollars.

(see the answer key)

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