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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie works ___________ years at the Pennsylvania Railroad while he develops managerial skill, economic principles and personal relationships to become a successful manager, capitalist and entrepreneur.
(a) Twelve.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Fourteen.

2. 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?
(a) An errand boy.
(b) A shoe-binder.
(c) A bobbin boy.
(d) A weaver.

3. 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-eight.
(b) Thirty-eight.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

4. Carnegie proposes they cooperate rather than bid against each other and suggests what be the joint venture?
(a) "The Pullman Palace Car Company."
(b) "The Pullman Sleeper Car Company."
(c) "The Carnegie Car Company."
(d) "The Pullman-Carnegie Car Company."

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

6. From 1867 through 1872, Andrew Carnegie joins the expansion trend by manipulating what stock to promote $30 million in stocks and bonds in Europe?
(a) Union Pacific and Pennsylvania Railroad.
(b) Western Union and Union Pacific.
(c) Pennsylvania Railroad and Western Union.
(d) Woodruff and Western Union.

7. Andrew Carnegie's last bond financing sale comes in July, _______ when he sells $6 million in bonds to Sulzbach Brothers, who buy bonds reluctantly, with Carnegie's encouragement.
(a) 1892.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1882.

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

9. Andrew's job delivering telegraph messages puts him in touch with whom?
(a) Business producers on their way to national prominence.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) People of varying races.
(d) Many irate individuals.

10. What is the town's industry in 1835?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Hand weaving.
(c) Basket weaving.
(d) Silk weaving.

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

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

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

14. Coleman wants to raise the price of oil by doing what?
(a) Raising his workers' salaries.
(b) Raising his own salary.
(c) Hoarding supply.
(d) Raising the cost of shipping.

15. A typical pattern in the ____________ century is that a community builds up around a few pioneers who leave their homeland and then encourage friends and relatives to join them.
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads each have ________ thousand employees trained into a disciplined workforce.

2. The triumvirate agrees to sell at once for what reason?

3. Scott leaves Carnegie in charge when he does what?

4. 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.

5. Managerial skill level reached over ______________ years exceeds that of the prior five centuries.

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