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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. What demand adequate cash flow and net income for operating expenses and a dividend sufficient to maintain and attract capital to grow?
(a) Railroad management skills.
(b) Railroad technology skills.
(c) Organizational skills.
(d) Sales skills.

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

3. 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.

4. Carnegie uses $11,000 in Woodruff dividends to buy 1,100 shares that pay $17,800 in their first year and eventually over _________ dollars.
(a) Two hundred thousand.
(b) A million.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Two million.

5. He forms an informal investing ____________ with Thomson and Scott.
(a) Duumvirate.
(b) Quadrumvirate.
(c) Triumvirate.
(d) Quintumvirate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?

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

3. Carnegie hires the expert ____________ to put the Bessemer program in place and function as its works superintendent.

4. The industrial economy is crippled with some __________________ firms failing over six years.

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

(see the answer key)

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