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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 succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?
(a) His friend's.
(b) Old World.
(c) His parent's.
(d) New World.

2. Andrew's opportunity to escape the coal and oil of textile mills comes through _________ asking him to become a messenger boy with a telegraph company in Pittsburgh.
(a) His Uncle Hogan.
(b) His Uncle Harold.
(c) His Uncle Heathe.
(d) His Uncle Henry.

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

4. What railroad focuses capital investments that either increase revenue or reduce unit cost to justify them?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) CSX.
(c) Union Pacific.
(d) BNSF.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Will is unable to catch on to new opportunities and reverts back to weaving and selling his wares on the street, which does what?

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

4. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.

5. Scott leaves Carnegie in charge when he does what?

(see the answer key)

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