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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) Twenty.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Eighteen.

2. Previously Margaret Carnegie's sisters, Annie Aitken and Kitty Hogan immigrate in __________, and write of good and bad times there.
(a) 1845.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1830.

3. What characterizes America?
(a) The "American willpower."
(b) The "American dream."
(c) The "American car."
(d) The "American pride."

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

5. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?
(a) The digital Economy.
(b) The market based economy.
(c) The industrial economy.
(d) The barter economy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew's job delivering telegraph messages puts him in touch with whom?

2. Business transactions at the time take place over what type of communication?

3. 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.

4. 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 __________________.

5. A typical pattern in the ____________ century is that a community builds up around a few pioneers who leave their homeland and then encourage friends and relatives to join them.

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