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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. In __________, Carnegie has the most modern operation.
(a) 1879.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1875.

2. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?
(a) He gets an office opportunity in accounting.
(b) He gets promoted to a management position.
(c) He gets injured.
(d) He gets a college scholarship.

3. Carnegie follows the successful path of building through a depression and lack of customers by ________________.
(a) Increasing costs and decreasing output.
(b) Increasing costs and output.
(c) Driving costs and output down.
(d) Driving costs down and increasing output.

4. Phipps buys flue-cinder at fifty cents a ton and sells puddle-cinder at ________ per ton to improve Lucy furnace product and save money.
(a) $2.50.
(b) $3.50.
(c) $1.50.
(d) $0.50.

5. Carnegie eliminates the costly fire insurance on his wooden buildings by replacing them with what?
(a) Bronze structurse.
(b) Copper structures.
(c) Iron structures.
(d) Steel structures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Productive staff is rewarded and non-productive staff is ___________.

2. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?

3. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?

4. He installs a blast furnace called________ in 1872 to produce 13.361 tons initially and eventually over 100,000 tons annually by maximizing output.

5. From 1867 through 1872, Andrew Carnegie joins the expansion trend by manipulating what stock to promote $30 million in stocks and bonds in Europe?

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