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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the town's industry in 1835?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Silk weaving.
(c) Basket weaving.
(d) Hand weaving.

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

3. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
(a) BNSF Railway Company.
(b) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(c) CSX Corporation.
(d) Union Pacific.

4. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?
(a) Macon.
(b) Dunfermline.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Madrid.

5. 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 __________________.
(a) A new industrial world to an old agricultural world.
(b) An old agricultural to a new industrial world.
(c) An old industrial to a new agricultural world.
(d) An old hunter and gatherer society to a new agricultural world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?

2. 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.

3. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.

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

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

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