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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. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.
(a) Student.
(b) Politician.
(c) Operator.
(d) Leader.

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.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

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) 500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

5. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.
(a) 1865.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1860.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?

2. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.

3. During the nineteenth century American railroads are financed by bonds with over ____ percent of their earnings used to pay bond interest.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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