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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. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.
(a) $3 billion.
(b) $334 million.
(c) $3.4 milion.
(d) $34,000.

2. Scott leaves Carnegie in charge when he does what?
(a) Quits.
(b) Retires.
(c) Takes a ten-day trip.
(d) Has mandatory surgery.

3. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?
(a) The most powerful man in the world.
(b) The laziest man in the world.
(c) The richest man in the world.
(d) The scariest man in the world.

4. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What demand adequate cash flow and net income for operating expenses and a dividend sufficient to maintain and attract capital to grow?

2. Pennsylvania Railroad buys from the Woodruff venture and offers what when borrowing?

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

4. Thirteen year-old Andrew sees his father fail while admiring whose determination to rise above it?

5. Carnegie perfects business techniques to transform an iron and steel industry comprised of many small producers into what for the first time?

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