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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. Carnegie's first dividend check for ________ opens a whole new world of receiving cash from capital.
(a) $20.
(b) $80.
(c) $10.
(d) $40.

2. Managerial skill level reached over ______________ years exceeds that of the prior five centuries.
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty-five.

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

4. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
(a) BNSF Railway Company.
(b) Union Pacific.
(c) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(d) CSX Corporation.

5. Carnegie hires Captain Bill Jones to raid whose staff where they worked together before its strike to run ET?
(a) Cambria pines'.
(b) Cambria font's.
(c) Cambria heights'.
(d) Cambria mill's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scott leaves Carnegie in charge when he does what?

2. Beginning in 1872, Carnegie focuses on the single project of his steel-rail rolling mill that is completed in _________.

3. Rich and poor are impacted when even Tom Scott faces ruin and disgrace from Texas Pacific Railroad default unless what happens?

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

5. Scott and Thomson like the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company that owns patents in 1858 but lacks what?

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