Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
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 ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.
(a) 1862.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1858.
2. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?
(a) Customer movement.
(b) Train movement.
(c) Customer interest.
(d) Train repairs.
3. Carnegie buys his stock in Pullman selling shares in Central to other stockholders by not using what?
(a) The money of others.
(b) Any of his own money.
(c) Manipulation.
(d) His connections.
4. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Youngstown.
5. Carnegie is cautious in his investments by limiting them to what?
(a) Firms he knows about that are related to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
(b) Firms his friends suggest.
(c) Firms he has studied for several months.
(d) Small firms.
Short Answer Questions
1. During the nineteenth century American railroads are financed by bonds with over ____ percent of their earnings used to pay bond interest.
2. Holley's pre-production estimates and Shinn's voucher system provides Carnegie's Edgar Thomson Works with accurate profitability in its ________ month of operation.
3. Along with Shinn, they put together an effective team based on Carnegie's systematic analysis of personnel to provide performance incentives that raise __________ men through ranks to share ownership.
4. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
5. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.
|
This section contains 251 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
|
