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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. With whom does Carnegie form Columbia Oil Company?
(a) Willard Coleman.
(b) Wallece Coleman.
(c) William Coleman.
(d) Wilson Coleman.

2. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Mining.
(c) Financial.
(d) Commercial.

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

4. In 1849 when he takes the job, Carnegie is at the beginning of a period when capital, manpower and technology in the United States transitions from __________________.
(a) A new industrial world to an old agricultural world.
(b) An old industrial to a new agricultural world.
(c) An old agricultural to a new industrial world.
(d) An old hunter and gatherer society to a new agricultural world.

5. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?
(a) Low-rent housing.
(b) Employment.
(c) Food.
(d) Rent-free housing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie proposes they cooperate rather than bid against each other and suggests what be the joint venture?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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