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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Youngstown.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

3. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?
(a) Equipment.
(b) Trust.
(c) Capital.
(d) Technological understanding.

4. In ___________, Andrew is offered a job by Tom Scott, western division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be his secretary and personal telegrapher.
(a) 1858.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1868.

5. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Mining.
(c) Commercial.
(d) Financial.

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. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?

3. Although Andrew dislikes the tedium, smells and hours, he works in another textile mill until what?

4. Andrew goes to night school in bookkeeping at what age?

5. 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.

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