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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Running a Successful Company: Ten Rules that Worked for Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is rule number one?
(a) Commit to yourself.
(b) Commit to your family.
(c) Commit to your business.
(d) Commit to be wealthy.

2. He learns from a very early age that children should do what?
(a) Be seen and not heard.
(b) Be responsible for contributing to their family just as much as the adults and should not be considered 'takers."
(c) Be pampered.
(d) Be ignored.

3. Sam believes that he was over-blessed with the traits of ____________.
(a) Love and kindness.
(b) Understanding and empathy.
(c) Pride and jealousy.
(d) Ambition and drive.

4. When the company becomes divided, behind whom do the younger guys line up?
(a) Bob.
(b) Rob.
(c) Helen.
(d) Ron.

5. His stores have been growing at a good rate, and he feels their success is partly due to placing stores __________.
(a) In smaller towns.
(b) In the midwest.
(c) In poor neighborhoods.
(d) In large cities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sam feel never being on a losing team helped him?

2. For what do Sam and his upper management team look in the smaller stores?

3. What does Sam admit was the biggest mistake of his business career?

4. Unions have tried to organize at Wal-Mart. Have they been successful?

5. Phil Green concocts __________.

(see the answer key)

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