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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the cornerstone of Carnegie's fortune, followed in 1861 by Columbia Oil?
(a) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(b) Coleman.
(c) Woodruff.
(d) Pullman.

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

4. Seeds of ambivalence develop within Andrew to appreciate what ideas?
(a) Old World.
(b) His friend's.
(c) New World.
(d) His parent's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Andrew dislike about the oil business that seems beyond control of management until the 1880s and Rockefeller?

2. What characterizes America?

3. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?

4. Scott and Thomson like the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company that owns patents in 1858 but lacks what?

5. Carnegie's ideas about machines, individual success and the American political system contribute to the development and growth of what?

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