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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. He forms an informal investing ____________ with Thomson and Scott.
(a) Quintumvirate.
(b) Triumvirate.
(c) Quadrumvirate.
(d) Duumvirate.

2. 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) 1882.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1892.

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

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

5. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?
(a) His understanding of business.
(b) The pride he thinks the Carnegies lost by emigrating.
(c) His sense of self.
(d) The money his family has lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew's opportunity to escape the coal and oil of textile mills comes through _________ asking him to become a messenger boy with a telegraph company in Pittsburgh.

2. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"

3. In _________, the transcontinental Union Pacific seeks bids from sleeping car companies for its expansion.

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

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

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