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

2. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?
(a) His sense of self.
(b) The pride he thinks the Carnegies lost by emigrating.
(c) His understanding of business.
(d) The money his family has lost.

3. The size and complexity of a railroad business requires creation of bureaucratic organization, structure, and what else?
(a) Policy to fit the needs.
(b) A union.
(c) Benefits for workers.
(d) A hiring process.

4. Carnegie is cautious in his investments by limiting them to what?
(a) Firms he knows about that are related to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
(b) Small firms.
(c) Firms his friends suggest.
(d) Firms he has studied for several months.

5. Carnegie presents the bonds to the Morgan investment banking house in London in March, 1869, where he sells them to Morgan at what percent?
(a) 75.
(b) 85.
(c) 55.
(d) 65.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie's first dividend check for ________ opens a whole new world of receiving cash from capital.

2. James L. Shaw of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company offers to buy how many shares of Keystone at three times its value, or $150,000?

3. Carnegie meets railroad's ____________ and initiates control of division operations when needed.

4. 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.

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

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