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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Triumph and Tragedy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie works ___________ years at the Pennsylvania Railroad while he develops managerial skill, economic principles and personal relationships to become a successful manager, capitalist and entrepreneur.
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twelve.

2. A typical pattern in the ____________ century is that a community builds up around a few pioneers who leave their homeland and then encourage friends and relatives to join them.
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

3. 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-eight.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

4. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

5. Carnegie progresses from rolling rail to rolling structural beams and angles for bridges, skyscrapers, and ________________.
(a) Apartments.
(b) Homes.
(c) Elevated railroads.
(d) Businesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scott and Thomson like the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company that owns patents in 1858 but lacks what?

2. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.

3. At thirty, Frick is a millionaire with _______ thousand coke ovens and three thousand acres of land.

4. Carnegie sells _____________ bonds to Junius Morgan in London to complete construction of the Edgar Thomson Works in 1875, and saves 25 percent in costs from the depression.

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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