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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 contributes __________ of the partnership total $741,000 in original capital to the firm he names "Carnegie, McCandless and Company" and names the mill "Edgar Thomson Works" (ET) for the first president of Pennsylvania Railroad.
(a) $2.5 million.
(b) $25,000.
(c) $250,000.
(d) $2,500.

2. Scott and Thomson like the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company that owns patents in 1858 but lacks what?
(a) Understanding of this business.
(b) The courage and business sense to develop them.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Financial backing.

3. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?
(a) The deceased chairman of Applebee's.
(b) The deceased president of Liz Claiborne.
(c) The deceased chairman of Coca-Cola.
(d) The deceased CEO of Intel.

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

5. 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.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"

2. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.

3. Corruption in construction of the Union Pacific Railroad is exposed with what scandal where congressmen get railroad stock to misuse public funds?

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

5. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?

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