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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. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Youngstown.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Pittsburgh.

2. Andrew needs a strong leader to manage growth after what happens to his brother Tom?
(a) He retires.
(b) He dies.
(c) He becomes ill.
(d) He moves.

3. The process takes longer than expected, but by 1868 production begins, and expansion is planned in what year?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1872.

4. The business is _______________ with conductors and station agents collecting millions in small coin revenue.
(a) "Nickel and dime."
(b) Dime and quarter."
(c) Penny and dime."
(d) "Penny and nickel."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Carnegie form Columbia Oil Company?

2. Carnegie rises from bobbin boy at __________ per week in 1850 to railroad superintendent at $2,400 per year in 1865.

3. Carnegie uses a similar strategy to exit the Woodruff Company by reorganizing it into ________________ with new stockholders and the triumvirate unstated.

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

5. A new competitor, ________________ , decides a lavishly decorated "rolling palace" may have an edge, and by 1867 he has forty-eight in service.

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