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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Previously Margaret Carnegie's sisters, Annie Aitken and Kitty Hogan immigrate in __________, and write of good and bad times there.
(a) 1845.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1835.

3. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?
(a) The deceased chairman of Coca-Cola.
(b) The deceased president of Liz Claiborne.
(c) The deceased CEO of Intel.
(d) The deceased chairman of Applebee's.

4. What railroad focuses capital investments that either increase revenue or reduce unit cost to justify them?
(a) Union Pacific.
(b) BNSF.
(c) CSX.
(d) Pennsylvania.

5. A typical pattern in the ____________ century is that a community builds up around a few pioneers who leave their homeland and then encourage friends and relatives to join them.
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Sixteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. This craft has been practiced by half its 11,000 people since when?

2. Success is due to the first president, ________________, and the superintendent of the western division, Tom Scott, who brings Andrew Carnegie into the modern system of train control.

3. What demand adequate cash flow and net income for operating expenses and a dividend sufficient to maintain and attract capital to grow?

4. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.

5. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?

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