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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Miller is a _________ man who forms joint ventures with Carnegie in several small investments. They form Freedom Iron Company of Lewiston Pennsylvania in 1861 that Carnegie restructures into Freedom Iron and Steel to retool for the Bessemer process in 1866.
(a) Industrial.
(b) Railroad.
(c) Technology.
(d) Automobile.

2. Except for Tom, the youngest who is in school, Will and Margaret go to work by weaving and shoe-binding, and Andrew as what in a textile mill?
(a) A weaver.
(b) A shoe-binder.
(c) A bobbin boy.
(d) An errand boy.

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

4. American capitalism and democracy conflict in the fear that economic justice requires what?
(a) An active interventionist role for government.
(b) Small government.
(c) No government.
(d) An inactive government.

5. Productive staff is rewarded and non-productive staff is ___________.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Abused.
(c) Eliminated.
(d) Punished.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?

5. Cost information enables cost-cutting per unit by __________________________ at the same output level.

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