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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Climb Begins.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Financial.
(b) Mining.
(c) Commercial.
(d) Manufacturing.

2. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?
(a) The scariest man in the world.
(b) The laziest man in the world.
(c) The richest man in the world.
(d) The most powerful man in the world.

3. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?
(a) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.
(b) Sail from France with fellow French passengers.
(c) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.
(d) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.

4. Carnegie perfects business techniques to transform an iron and steel industry comprised of many small producers into what for the first time?
(a) Small business.
(b) Government-controlled business.
(c) Big business.
(d) No business.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?

2. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?

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

4. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?

5. Thirteen year-old Andrew sees his father fail while admiring whose determination to rise above it?

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