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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Climb Ends.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The mill site is strategically situated _______________ where the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio railroad and river transportation system is readily available, nearby the coal fields.
(a) At the Potomac.
(b) At the Allegheny.
(c) At the Ohio River.
(d) At the Monongahela.

2. Phipps and Frick find a buyer in April 1899, who offers to buy Carnegie Steel and Frick Coke for $250 and $70 million respectively, which would pay Carnegie an acceptable $157 million with $57 million in cash. When Carnegie asks the name of the buyer, Phipps and Frick as agents claim what?
(a) Anonymity and a ninety-day option.
(b) Anonymity and a thirty-day option.
(c) They do not know who the buyers are.
(d) They are the buyers.

3. He follows a policy of putting all his eggs in the same basket and doing what?
(a) Forgetting about it.
(b) Ignoring it.
(c) Watching it.
(d) Worrying about it.

4. Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads each have ________ thousand employees trained into a disciplined workforce.
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Four.

5. Carnegie's labor guidelines and Captain Bill's implementation works well until 1889 when what happens to Bill?
(a) He is accused of causing a blast furnace explosion.
(b) He is injured in a blast furnace explosion.
(c) He is killed in a blast furnace explosion.
(d) He causes a blast furnace explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1898, Carnegie succeeds in the first stage of the steel industry. What is this first stage?

2. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?

3. 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?

4. He installs a blast furnace called________ in 1872 to produce 13.361 tons initially and eventually over 100,000 tons annually by maximizing output.

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

(see the answer key)

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