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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 and his triumvirate get a franchise from Pennsylvania Railroad with the benefits of existing poles and franchising from Trenton through to what?
(a) The Ohio state line.
(b) The Missouri state line.
(c) The Indiana state line.
(d) The Illinois state line.

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

3. When dividend payments stop, Carnegie plans a ________ exit to maximize Pacific's price by speculation that lets the triumvirate cash out and leave the remaining Pacific stockholders to drown.
(a) Three-step.
(b) Two-step.
(c) Four-step.
(d) Five-step.

4. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?
(a) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.
(b) Sail from France with fellow French passengers.
(c) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.
(d) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.

5. Pennsylvania Railroad buys from the Woodruff venture and offers what when borrowing?
(a) A great deal of collateral.
(b) The credibility of a "big corporation."
(c) A discount on shipping.
(d) The credibility of a "strong corporation."

Short Answer Questions

1. James L. Shaw of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company offers to buy how many shares of Keystone at three times its value, or $150,000?

2. By the age of __________ Carnegie manages a complex, multi-unit industrial enterprise and capitalizes on knowing the value of money based on what it can earn.

3. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?

4. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?

5. Scott leaves Carnegie in charge when he does what?

(see the answer key)

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