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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master Builder: A Structure of Steel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie buys his stock in Pullman selling shares in Central to other stockholders by not using what?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Any of his own money.
(c) His connections.
(d) The money of others.

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

3. Along with Shinn, they put together an effective team based on Carnegie's systematic analysis of personnel to provide performance incentives that raise __________ men through ranks to share ownership.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

4. Carnegie promotes expanding with other Pennsylvania-controlled franchises through Scott and assures construction in his contracting business by bartering Pacific stock for construction costs with ___________ exchange rates.
(a) 2 and 4 to one.
(b) 3 and 4 to one.
(c) 5 and 7 to one.
(d) 3 and 5 to one.

5. Carnegie and his triumvirate get a franchise from Pennsylvania Railroad with the benefits of existing poles and franchising from Trenton through to what?
(a) The Illinois state line.
(b) The Missouri state line.
(c) The Ohio state line.
(d) The Indiana state line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What railroad focuses capital investments that either increase revenue or reduce unit cost to justify them?

2. Carnegie uses $11,000 in Woodruff dividends to buy 1,100 shares that pay $17,800 in their first year and eventually over _________ dollars.

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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