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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Running a Successful Company: Ten Rules that Worked for Me.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. At the time, nobody wants to invest in the idea with Bud putting only 3 percent into it and another manager from Texas putting in 2 percent. Other than that, Sam had to come up with what percent of the financing on his own?
(a) 95.
(b) 98.
(c) 90.
(d) 85.
2. Sam and his brother Bud go into business together and purchase outright ______________.
(a) An old Meijer store in Ruskin Heights.
(b) An old Woolworth store in Ruskin Heights.
(c) An old Ben Franklin store in Ruskin Heights.
(d) An old Kmart store in Ruskin Heights.
3. While debating the idea of going public, Sam flies around looking for _________.
(a) Someone to legally represent him.
(b) New executives.
(c) Another $1.5 million loan.
(d) Locations for new stores.
4. He decides to run for the student body president and wins by doing one important move. What is that move?
(a) Recruiting followers.
(b) Bribing his fellow students with money or passing grades.
(c) Blackmailing some of the student body.
(d) He speaks to people before they speak to him.
5. Sam credits the success of the business with what relationship?
(a) The one he has with his employees.
(b) The one he has with his wife.
(c) The one Sam has with his father-in-law.
(d) The one that the managers have with their associates.
Short Answer Questions
1. Now that Sam is out of debt, he feels he can really concentrate on _________.
2. Wal-Mart gives an annual ____________ scholarship to a local student.
3. This book is Sam's attempt to __________________.
4. What does Sam do after he establishes a Wal-Mart on the boundaries of big cities?
5. Sam would walk into some of the big discount retailers and ask to speak with their top executives, introducing himself as "Sam Walton from Bentonville." Why would he do this?
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