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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie tries to use public relations, legislative action and threatens who to drive shipping costs down?
(a) John D. Rockefeller.
(b) A competitor in the steel industry.
(c) A competitor railroad.
(d) The unions.

2. Phipps takes Carnegie's cost-cutting seriously by having who analyze flue and puddle cinders?
(a) A conservationist.
(b) A physicist.
(c) A biologist.
(d) A chemist.

3. Carnegie and his triumvirate get a franchise from Pennsylvania Railroad with the benefits of existing poles and franchising from Trenton through to what?
(a) The Missouri state line.
(b) The Indiana state line.
(c) The Ohio state line.
(d) The Illinois state line.

4. Carnegie organizes a partnership with business associates and colleagues that are confident of his success to do what?
(a) Stabilize capital.
(b) Find capital.
(c) Lower capital.
(d) Raise capital.

5. Carnegie is praised by labor leaders and Frick is considered _____________.
(a) "A hero."
(b) "Carnegie's assistant."
(c) "Haughty and disdainful."
(d) "Strange and righteous."

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie feels confident enough in 1870 to do what?

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

3. What is the second stage?

4. When the state legislature creates a limited partnership in ____________, Carnegie, McCandless immediately restructures into the Edgar Thomson Steel Company, Limited.

5. Machines begin taking over production with energy from _____________ independent from windmills and waterwheels.

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