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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the town's industry in 1835?
(a) Hand weaving.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Basket weaving.
(d) Silk weaving.

2. Thirteen year-old Andrew sees his father fail while admiring whose determination to rise above it?
(a) His mother's.
(b) His uncle's.
(c) His brother's.
(d) His aunt's.

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

4. Carnegie's first dividend check for ________ opens a whole new world of receiving cash from capital.
(a) $80.
(b) $20.
(c) $40.
(d) $10.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Machines begin taking over production with energy from _____________ independent from windmills and waterwheels.

2. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?

3. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.

4. Scott and Thomson hold stock in Carnegie's name for what reason?

5. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?

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