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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Youngstown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Cleveland.

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.
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Sixteenth.
(c) Eighteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

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

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. 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.

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

4. Seeds of ambivalence develop within Andrew to appreciate what ideas?

5. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.

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