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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Will is unable to catch on to new opportunities and reverts back to weaving and selling his wares on the street, which does what?
(a) Destroys his self-confidence and shames his family.
(b) Brings him more work than when he had his factory job.
(c) Provides a significant income for his family.
(d) Builds his self-confidence and brings pride to his family.

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

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

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

5. Andrew's opportunity to escape the coal and oil of textile mills comes through _________ asking him to become a messenger boy with a telegraph company in Pittsburgh.
(a) His Uncle Henry.
(b) His Uncle Harold.
(c) His Uncle Heathe.
(d) His Uncle Hogan.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Except for Tom, the youngest who is in school, Will and Margaret go to work by weaving and shoe-binding, and Andrew as what in a textile mill?

4. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?

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

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