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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?
(a) The deceased chairman of Applebee's.
(b) The deceased chairman of Coca-Cola.
(c) The deceased CEO of Intel.
(d) The deceased president of Liz Claiborne.

2. 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.

3. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?
(a) Old World.
(b) New World.
(c) His parent's.
(d) His friend's.

4. 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 France with fellow French passengers.
(b) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.
(c) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.
(d) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.

5. 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) Hundreds.
(c) Tens of millions.
(d) Tens of thousands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?

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

3. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.

4. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.

5. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.

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