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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Previously Margaret Carnegie's sisters, Annie Aitken and Kitty Hogan immigrate in __________, and write of good and bad times there.
(a) 1835.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1830.

2. By ________, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs 3,500 miles of track with 30,000 employees and $61 million invested.
(a) 1860.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1875.

3. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Fourteen.

4. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.
(a) Operator.
(b) Student.
(c) Politician.
(d) Leader.

5. Margaret Carnegie's sister precedes her move to America and Annie Aitken provides them what?
(a) Food.
(b) Rent-free housing.
(c) Low-rent housing.
(d) Employment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1863, his investments pay $45,460 and by 1868, he receives __________ per year for an investment of $817 that he borrows to make.

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.

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.

4. Relying on the telegraph lets dispatchers control what, with current information and disciplined workers?

5. Carnegie is cautious in his investments by limiting them to what?

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