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

2. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?
(a) The laziest man in the world.
(b) The scariest man in the world.
(c) The most powerful man in the world.
(d) The richest man in the world.

3. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?
(a) Customer interest.
(b) Train movement.
(c) Train repairs.
(d) Customer movement.

4. What does Andrew dislike about the oil business that seems beyond control of management until the 1880s and Rockefeller?
(a) The smell, messiness and waste.
(b) The instability of the economy.
(c) The fluctuation of price.
(d) The destructive properties of oil.

5. It is _______________ private business firm in the world and is called "the standard railroad of the world."
(a) The smallest.
(b) One of the largest.
(c) One of the smallest.
(d) The largest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Why does Pullman gives Carnegie enough Pennsylvania stock to collateralize a $600,000 loan?

4. With whom does Carnegie form Columbia Oil Company?

5. He forms an informal investing ____________ with Thomson and Scott.

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