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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Railroad ______________ run the trains, maintain rolling stock and track, price and collect charges for service on passenger and freight trains running in both directions to meet demand.
(a) Executives.
(b) Employees.
(c) Managers.
(d) Stockholders.

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

4. 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 billions.
(b) Tens of millions.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Tens of thousands.

5. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?
(a) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.
(b) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.
(c) Sail from France with fellow French passengers.
(d) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characterizes America?

3. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?

4. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?

5. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?

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