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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 promotes expanding with other Pennsylvania-controlled franchises through Scott and assures construction in his contracting business by bartering Pacific stock for construction costs with ___________ exchange rates.
(a) 5 and 7 to one.
(b) 2 and 4 to one.
(c) 3 and 4 to one.
(d) 3 and 5 to one.

2. Carnegie hires the expert ____________ to put the Bessemer program in place and function as its works superintendent.
(a) John D. Rockefeller.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) Tom Scott.
(d) Alexander Holley.

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

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

5. 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) Six.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. American capitalism and democracy conflict in the fear that economic justice requires what?

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

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

4. It is _______________ private business firm in the world and is called "the standard railroad of the world."

5. William Coleman also shares Carnegie's interest and enthusiasm in what?

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