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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Climb Begins.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?
(a) The scariest man in the world.
(b) The laziest man in the world.
(c) The most powerful man in the world.
(d) The richest man in the world.
2. Thirteen year-old Andrew sees his father fail while admiring whose determination to rise above it?
(a) His uncle's.
(b) His aunt's.
(c) His brother's.
(d) His mother's.
3. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Sixteen.
4. What is the town's industry in 1835?
(a) Basket weaving.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Hand weaving.
(d) Silk weaving.
5. This old craft is destroyed in _______ years, along with Will Carnegie's job and his town's main source of income.
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eighteen.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?
2. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?
3. Except for Tom, the youngest who is in school, Will and Margaret go to work by weaving and shoe-binding, and Andrew as what in a textile mill?
4. Business transactions at the time take place over what type of communication?
5. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?
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