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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. Beginning in 1872, Carnegie focuses on the single project of his steel-rail rolling mill that is completed in _________.
(a) 1873.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1903.

2. He installs a blast furnace called________ in 1872 to produce 13.361 tons initially and eventually over 100,000 tons annually by maximizing output.
(a) "Luke."
(b) "Lucy."
(c) "Larry."
(d) "Lenny."

3. Previously Margaret Carnegie's sisters, Annie Aitken and Kitty Hogan immigrate in __________, and write of good and bad times there.
(a) 1840.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1835.

4. When the state legislature creates a limited partnership in ____________, Carnegie, McCandless immediately restructures into the Edgar Thomson Steel Company, Limited.
(a) 1878.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1880.

5. By the age of __________ Carnegie manages a complex, multi-unit industrial enterprise and capitalizes on knowing the value of money based on what it can earn.
(a) Thirty-eight.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Thirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie organizes a partnership with business associates and colleagues that are confident of his success to do what?

2. With whom does Carnegie form Columbia Oil Company?

3. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.

4. The process takes longer than expected, but by 1868 production begins, and expansion is planned in what year?

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

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