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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. During the nineteenth century American railroads are financed by bonds with over ____ percent of their earnings used to pay bond interest.
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 50.

2. Carnegie hires Captain Bill Jones to raid whose staff where they worked together before its strike to run ET?
(a) Cambria font's.
(b) Cambria heights'.
(c) Cambria mill's.
(d) Cambria pines'.

3. 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 Ohio state line.
(c) The Missouri state line.
(d) The Indiana state line.

4. Scott sends Carnegie off to where as a bond salesman with good wishes, a bag of bonds and letters of reference for the St. Louis Bridge Company?
(a) Europe.
(b) California.
(c) Asia.
(d) Africa.

5. 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) 1902.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1882.

Short Answer Questions

1. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.

2. When his father dies in 1855, Andrew calls him what?

3. When dividend payments stop, Carnegie plans a ________ exit to maximize Pacific's price by speculation that lets the triumvirate cash out and leave the remaining Pacific stockholders to drown.

4. Carnegie hires the expert ____________ to put the Bessemer program in place and function as its works superintendent.

5. In 1863, his investments pay $45,460 and by 1868, he receives __________ per year for an investment of $817 that he borrows to make.

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