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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"
(a) Duane McMahon's.
(b) David McClure's.
(c) Darrel McAllister's.
(d) Daniel McCallum's.

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

5. In 1856, Scott advises him to buy what company as his first stock investment?
(a) Aaron Express Company.
(b) Anthony Express Company.
(c) Adams Express Company.
(d) Amos Express Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. He forms an informal investing ____________ with Thomson and Scott.

2. 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.

3. Carnegie buys his stock in Pullman selling shares in Central to other stockholders by not using what?

4. Why does Pullman gives Carnegie enough Pennsylvania stock to collateralize a $600,000 loan?

5. This craft has been practiced by half its 11,000 people since when?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Roberto Goizuetta and Any Grove?

2. What happens within two years of arriving in America?

3. How is Carnegie cautious in his investments? How might this help him throughout his career?

4. How does industry benefit from Carnegie?

5. How is Pittsburgh important at this time?

6. What does Carnegie learn at the Pennsylvania Railroad?

7. What does Carnegie do in Europe?

8. What work do the Carnegies find in America?

9. What happens on July 15, 1848?

10. By what is this dream not diminished?

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