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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master Moneyman: A Fortune in Paper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie presents the bonds to the Morgan investment banking house in London in March, 1869, where he sells them to Morgan at what percent?
(a) 75.
(b) 55.
(c) 85.
(d) 65.

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

3. Andrew's opportunity to escape the coal and oil of textile mills comes through _________ asking him to become a messenger boy with a telegraph company in Pittsburgh.
(a) His Uncle Hogan.
(b) His Uncle Heathe.
(c) His Uncle Harold.
(d) His Uncle Henry.

4. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.
(a) 1870.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1860.

5. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Commercial.
(b) Mining.
(c) Financial.
(d) Manufacturing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?

2. Scott sends Carnegie off to where as a bond salesman with good wishes, a bag of bonds and letters of reference for the St. Louis Bridge Company?

3. Previously Margaret Carnegie's sisters, Annie Aitken and Kitty Hogan immigrate in __________, and write of good and bad times there.

4. In 1849 when he takes the job, Carnegie is at the beginning of a period when capital, manpower and technology in the United States transitions from __________________.

5. Who is the cornerstone of Carnegie's fortune, followed in 1861 by Columbia Oil?

(see the answer key)

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