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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Climb Begins.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fourteen.
2. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?
(a) The laziest man in the world.
(b) The scariest man in the world.
(c) The most powerful man in the world.
(d) The richest man in the world.
3. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?
(a) The market based economy.
(b) The industrial economy.
(c) The barter economy.
(d) The digital Economy.
4. 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.
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. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
2. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
3. In 1849 when he takes the job, Carnegie is at the beginning of a period when capital, manpower and technology in the United States transitions from __________________.
4. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?
5. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?
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