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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When his father dies in 1855, Andrew calls him what?
(a) A loser.
(b) A man of the world.
(c) A man not of the world.
(d) An embarrassment.

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

3. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Macon.
(c) Dunfermline.
(d) Dublin.

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

5. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?
(a) Indian Pooja Patel.
(b) American Cuba Gooding, Jr.
(c) Cuban Roberto Goizuetta.
(d) Hungarian Andy Grove.

Short Answer Questions

1. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?

2. Whose pioneering skills in management are codified in his "Book of Rules and the Employees' Timetable?"

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

4. Andrew begins to see the railroad industry as an opportunity to regain what?

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

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