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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Will is unable to catch on to new opportunities and reverts back to weaving and selling his wares on the street, which does what?
(a) Builds his self-confidence and brings pride to his family.
(b) Destroys his self-confidence and shames his family.
(c) Brings him more work than when he had his factory job.
(d) Provides a significant income for his family.

4. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.
(a) 1862.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1858.
(d) 1868.

5. 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?
(a) Tens of thousands.
(b) Tens of millions.
(c) Tens of billions.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.

3. When his father dies in 1855, Andrew calls him what?

4. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?

5. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?

(see the answer key)

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