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Quiz for Document 23–1: Edward Earle Purinton, Big Ideas from Big Business: Try Them Out for Yourself!, April 16, 1921

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did Purinton believe business was going to be the redemption of the world?

Business was going to create equal wealth for all.

Business was going to make hard work redundant.

Business was going to make war more effective.

Business was going to improve the nation’s morality.

2. What did Purinton believe determined a person’s success in business?

Market conditions

Luck

Individual effort

Moral foundations

3. Why did Purinton approve of charity as practiced by businesses?

It benefited the neediest Americans.

It was mutually beneficial to companies and employees.

It adhered to Christian principles.

It supplemented government programs.

4. How did Purinton perceive the role of women in business?

He believed women were as capable as men in all areas of business.

He believed women’s insight could supplement men’s knowledge.

He believed women belonged in the home.

He believed women workers in business were acceptable prior to marriage.