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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Dunfermline.
(d) Macon.

3. Success is due to the first president, ________________, and the superintendent of the western division, Tom Scott, who brings Andrew Carnegie into the modern system of train control.
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) J. Edgar Johnson.
(c) J. Edgar Smith.
(d) J. Edgar Thomson.

4. Coleman wants to raise the price of oil by doing what?
(a) Raising the cost of shipping.
(b) Hoarding supply.
(c) Raising his own salary.
(d) Raising his workers' salaries.

5. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?
(a) Indian Pooja Patel.
(b) Cuban Roberto Goizuetta.
(c) Hungarian Andy Grove.
(d) American Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?

3. What characterizes America?

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

5. What is the town's industry in 1835?

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