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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. Andrew Carnegie's last bond financing sale comes in July, _______ when he sells $6 million in bonds to Sulzbach Brothers, who buy bonds reluctantly, with Carnegie's encouragement.
(a) 1902.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1882.

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

3. He leaves his Pittsburgh home and iron business to live in what city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Boston.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie's first dividend check for ________ opens a whole new world of receiving cash from capital.

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

3. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?

4. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"

5. Business transactions at the time take place over what type of communication?

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