Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Harold C. Livesay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Harold C. Livesay
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master Manager: Costs, Chemistry, and Coke.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the age of ___________ Carnegie finds a wife for his home, a business successor and considers retirement.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Fifty-four.

3. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Tens of billions.
(c) Tens of millions.
(d) Tens of thousands.

4. Bank failures destroy personal savings, social safety nets are nonexistent and workers retreat to the family farm or where?
(a) Canada.
(b) The mother country.
(c) The coasts.
(d) The city.

5. 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) 65.
(b) 55.
(c) 75.
(d) 85.

Short Answer Questions

1. Railroad ______________ run the trains, maintain rolling stock and track, price and collect charges for service on passenger and freight trains running in both directions to meet demand.

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

3. What demand adequate cash flow and net income for operating expenses and a dividend sufficient to maintain and attract capital to grow?

4. He follows a policy of putting all his eggs in the same basket and doing what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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