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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Eight.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

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

4. Machines begin taking over production with energy from _____________ independent from windmills and waterwheels.
(a) Wood-burning steam boilers.
(b) Electric steam boilers.
(c) Oil-burning steam boilers.
(d) Coal-fired steam boilers.

5. 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 digital Economy.
(d) The barter economy.

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. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?

3. 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?

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

5. This old craft is destroyed in _______ years, along with Will Carnegie's job and his town's main source of income.

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