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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. At thirty, Frick is a millionaire with _______ thousand coke ovens and three thousand acres of land.
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. Carnegie meets railroad's ____________ and initiates control of division operations when needed.
(a) Customers.
(b) Managers.
(c) Executives.
(d) Critics.

3. Carnegie uses a similar strategy to exit the Woodruff Company by reorganizing it into ________________ with new stockholders and the triumvirate unstated.
(a) The Cross Continental Company.
(b) The Union Transport Company.
(c) The Atlantic Pacific Company.
(d) The Central Transportation Company.

4. Managerial skill level reached over ______________ years exceeds that of the prior five centuries.
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-five.

5. What characterizes America?
(a) The "American car."
(b) The "American dream."
(c) The "American pride."
(d) The "American willpower."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the cornerstone of Carnegie's fortune, followed in 1861 by Columbia Oil?

2. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.

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

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

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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