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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Apprentice Manager.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?
(a) Tens of billions.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Tens of millions.
(d) Hundreds.

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

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

4. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"
(a) David McClure's.
(b) Darrel McAllister's.
(c) Daniel McCallum's.
(d) Duane McMahon's.

5. Andrew's job delivering telegraph messages puts him in touch with whom?
(a) Many irate individuals.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) Business producers on their way to national prominence.
(d) People of varying races.

Short Answer Questions

1. This old craft is destroyed in _______ years, along with Will Carnegie's job and his town's main source of income.

2. Seeds of ambivalence develop within Andrew to appreciate what ideas?

3. What railroad focuses capital investments that either increase revenue or reduce unit cost to justify them?

4. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?

5. Previously Margaret Carnegie's sisters, Annie Aitken and Kitty Hogan immigrate in __________, and write of good and bad times there.

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