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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) His sense of self.
(b) His understanding of business.
(c) The money his family has lost.
(d) The pride he thinks the Carnegies lost by emigrating.

2. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.
(a) $3.4 milion.
(b) $3 billion.
(c) $34,000.
(d) $334 million.

3. 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.
(a) J. Edgar Smith.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) J. Edgar Johnson.
(d) J. Edgar Thomson.

4. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?
(a) The industrial economy.
(b) The digital Economy.
(c) The market based economy.
(d) The barter economy.

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) Eighteenth.
(b) Sixteenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?

2. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?

3. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?

4. The size and complexity of a railroad business requires creation of bureaucratic organization, structure, and what else?

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

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