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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Scott and Thomson hold stock in Carnegie's name for what reason?
(a) They are afraid to hold stock in their own.
(b) Carnegie will not allow them to hold stock in anyone else's name.
(c) To avoid impropriety for Carnegie's one-eighth interest.
(d) Carnegie is very well-known and trusted.

2. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?
(a) Cuban Roberto Goizuetta.
(b) American Cuba Gooding, Jr.
(c) Indian Pooja Patel.
(d) Hungarian Andy Grove.

3. The size and complexity of a railroad business requires creation of bureaucratic organization, structure, and what else?
(a) Benefits for workers.
(b) A hiring process.
(c) Policy to fit the needs.
(d) A union.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Managerial skill level reached over ______________ years exceeds that of the prior five centuries.

2. Carnegie meets railroad's ____________ and initiates control of division operations when needed.

3. Seeds of ambivalence develop within Andrew to appreciate what ideas?

4. Machines begin taking over production with energy from _____________ independent from windmills and waterwheels.

5. The business is _______________ with conductors and station agents collecting millions in small coin revenue.

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