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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. The start of ET construction coincides with what?
(a) The Panic of 1873.
(b) The Great Depression of 1873.
(c) Black Friday of 1873.
(d) The Crash of 1873.

2. Rich and poor are impacted when even Tom Scott faces ruin and disgrace from Texas Pacific Railroad default unless what happens?
(a) He can sell stock.
(b) His friend Andrew Carnegie endorses the note.
(c) A miracle occurs.
(d) The economy improves.

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

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

5. Carnegie proposes they cooperate rather than bid against each other and suggests what be the joint venture?
(a) "The Pullman Sleeper Car Company."
(b) "The Pullman-Carnegie Car Company."
(c) "The Pullman Palace Car Company."
(d) "The Carnegie Car Company."

Short Answer Questions

1. He follows a policy of putting all his eggs in the same basket and doing what?

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

3. By the age of __________ Carnegie manages a complex, multi-unit industrial enterprise and capitalizes on knowing the value of money based on what it can earn.

4. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?

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.

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