Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Harold C. Livesay
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Harold C. Livesay
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Master Moneyman: A Fortune in Paper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Sixteen.

2. 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) An old agricultural to a new industrial world.
(b) An old industrial to a new agricultural world.
(c) A new industrial world to an old agricultural world.
(d) An old hunter and gatherer society to a new agricultural world.

3. Carnegie's first dividend check for ________ opens a whole new world of receiving cash from capital.
(a) $80.
(b) $20.
(c) $40.
(d) $10.

4. From 1867 through 1872, Andrew Carnegie joins the expansion trend by manipulating what stock to promote $30 million in stocks and bonds in Europe?
(a) Pennsylvania Railroad and Western Union.
(b) Woodruff and Western Union.
(c) Union Pacific and Pennsylvania Railroad.
(d) Western Union and Union Pacific.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?

2. He leaves his Pittsburgh home and iron business to live in what city?

3. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?

4. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?

5. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?

(see the answer key)

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