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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Apprentice Manager.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?
(a) He gets an office opportunity in accounting.
(b) He gets a college scholarship.
(c) He gets promoted to a management position.
(d) He gets injured.

2. Andrew's job delivering telegraph messages puts him in touch with whom?
(a) Many irate individuals.
(b) Business producers on their way to national prominence.
(c) People of varying races.
(d) The President of the United States.

3. Managerial skill level reached over ______________ years exceeds that of the prior five centuries.
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty-five.

4. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.
(a) $334 million.
(b) $3 billion.
(c) $34,000.
(d) $3.4 milion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Machines begin taking over production with energy from _____________ independent from windmills and waterwheels.

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

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 demand adequate cash flow and net income for operating expenses and a dividend sufficient to maintain and attract capital to grow?

5. Carnegie perfects business techniques to transform an iron and steel industry comprised of many small producers into what for the first time?

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