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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) A competitor in the steel industry.
(b) The unions.
(c) A competitor railroad.
(d) John D. Rockefeller.

2. By 1892, Carnegie is in ______________ and leaves labor issues to Frick.
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Wales.

3. At the age of ___________ Carnegie finds a wife for his home, a business successor and considers retirement.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Fifty-four.
(d) Sixty.

4. Cost information enables cost-cutting per unit by __________________________ at the same output level.
(a) Decreasing the speed of materials flow and increasing labor cost.
(b) Decreasing the speed of materials flow and decreasing labor cost.
(c) Increasing the speed of materials flow and decreasing labor cost.
(d) Increasing the speed of materials flow and increasing labor cost.

5. From 1872 through ________, Carnegie builds an integrated industrial business to become the best-known manufacturer in the world, publishes three books, travels around the world, and becomes a philanthropist with the express intent to give away his fortune.
(a) 1899.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1879.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?

2. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.

3. The sale price is based on a book value of $50 million, not the anticipated much greater value calculated on asset value, earning potential or market value, estimated of at least what?

4. Seeds of ambivalence develop within Andrew to appreciate what ideas?

5. With whom does Carnegie form Columbia Oil Company?

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