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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carnegie Challenges the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.
(a) 1862.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1858.
(d) 1852.

2. 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.
(a) Gold.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Steel.
(d) Iron.

3. Thirteen year-old Andrew sees his father fail while admiring whose determination to rise above it?
(a) His mother's.
(b) His uncle's.
(c) His aunt's.
(d) His brother's.

4. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?
(a) Trust.
(b) Capital.
(c) Technological understanding.
(d) Equipment.

5. Railroad ______________ run the trains, maintain rolling stock and track, price and collect charges for service on passenger and freight trains running in both directions to meet demand.
(a) Executives.
(b) Stockholders.
(c) Employees.
(d) Managers.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the country's largest banking houses Jay Cooke's collapses, credit structures tumble and _____________ businesses fail in a year.

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

3. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"

4. Carnegie and his triumvirate get a franchise from Pennsylvania Railroad with the benefits of existing poles and franchising from Trenton through to what?

5. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?

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