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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie meets railroad's ____________ and initiates control of division operations when needed.
(a) Executives.
(b) Customers.
(c) Managers.
(d) Critics.

2. 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) Twenty-eight.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-eight.

3. Carnegie's first installment on his one-eighth interest in Woodruff is $217.50 borrowed from the bank. The balance is paid by dividends in the venture's ________ year.
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

4. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Youngstown.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Philadelphia.

5. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.
(a) 1860.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1870.

6. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.
(a) 1852.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1858.

7. It is _______________ private business firm in the world and is called "the standard railroad of the world."
(a) The largest.
(b) One of the largest.
(c) One of the smallest.
(d) The smallest.

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

9. The business is _______________ with conductors and station agents collecting millions in small coin revenue.
(a) Penny and dime."
(b) Dime and quarter."
(c) "Nickel and dime."
(d) "Penny and nickel."

10. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?
(a) Tens of thousands.
(b) Tens of millions.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Tens of billions.

11. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?
(a) Customer interest.
(b) Customer movement.
(c) Train repairs.
(d) Train movement.

12. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Financial.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Mining.
(d) Commercial.

13. The size and complexity of a railroad business requires creation of bureaucratic organization, structure, and what else?
(a) A union.
(b) Benefits for workers.
(c) Policy to fit the needs.
(d) A hiring process.

14. What characterizes America?
(a) The "American car."
(b) The "American willpower."
(c) The "American dream."
(d) The "American pride."

15. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?
(a) The money his family has lost.
(b) The pride he thinks the Carnegies lost by emigrating.
(c) His sense of self.
(d) His understanding of business.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?

2. Thirteen year-old Andrew sees his father fail while admiring whose determination to rise above it?

3. In _________, the transcontinental Union Pacific seeks bids from sleeping car companies for its expansion.

4. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?

5. James L. Shaw of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company offers to buy how many shares of Keystone at three times its value, or $150,000?

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