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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. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.
2. In following years Carnegie gets at least ___________ for a net investment of $217.50 until 1870 when he sells out.
(a) $50.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $500.
3. 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 __________________.
(a) A new industrial world to an old agricultural world.
(b) An old agricultural to a new industrial world.
(c) An old industrial to a new agricultural world.
(d) An old hunter and gatherer society to a new agricultural world.
4. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?
(a) Trust.
(b) Equipment.
(c) Technological understanding.
(d) Capital.
5. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"
(a) David McClure's.
(b) Daniel McCallum's.
(c) Duane McMahon's.
(d) Darrel McAllister's.
Short Answer Questions
1. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.
2. Carnegie's first installment on his one-eighth interest in Woodruff is $217.50 borrowed from the bank. The balance is paid by dividends in the venture's ________ year.
3. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
4. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?
5. Carnegie's first dividend check for ________ opens a whole new world of receiving cash from capital.
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