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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Historically, management of the Carnegie companies resulted in _____ labor difficulties before the Homestead strike.
(a) Hundreds of.
(b) Few.
(c) Quite a few.
(d) Many.

2. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
(a) BNSF Railway Company.
(b) Union Pacific.
(c) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(d) CSX Corporation.

3. Holley's pre-production estimates and Shinn's voucher system provides Carnegie's Edgar Thomson Works with accurate profitability in its ________ month of operation.
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) Fourth.

4. By the age of __________ Carnegie manages a complex, multi-unit industrial enterprise and capitalizes on knowing the value of money based on what it can earn.
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Thirty-eight.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-eight.

5. Carnegie, acting under Scott-Thomson proxies, now owns how much of Pacific and Atlantic for the start-up Keystone Telegraph?
(a) One half.
(b) One eighth.
(c) One third.
(d) One fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1856, Scott advises him to buy what company as his first stock investment?

2. Conflict continues until it reaches climax on what day, when Carnegie threatens Frick with the Iron Clad to cost Frick at least $10 million?

3. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.

4. One of the country's largest banking houses Jay Cooke's collapses, credit structures tumble and _____________ businesses fail in a year.

5. He leaves his Pittsburgh home and iron business to live in what city?

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