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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Apprentice Manager.

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) 1858.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1868.

2. Carnegie perfects business techniques to transform an iron and steel industry comprised of many small producers into what for the first time?
(a) Big business.
(b) Small business.
(c) Government-controlled business.
(d) No business.

3. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fourteen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?

2. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.

3. Business transactions at the time take place over what type of communication?

4. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.

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

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