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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Scott leaves Carnegie in charge when he does what?
(a) Has mandatory surgery.
(b) Retires.
(c) Quits.
(d) Takes a ten-day trip.

2. Coleman wants to raise the price of oil by doing what?
(a) Hoarding supply.
(b) Raising his own salary.
(c) Raising the cost of shipping.
(d) Raising his workers' salaries.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Andrew's job delivering telegraph messages puts him in touch with whom?

3. Scott and Thomson hold stock in Carnegie's name for what reason?

4. This craft has been practiced by half its 11,000 people since when?

5. Their town is at one time known as the most radical in the kingdom, as a result of the influence of ______________ who demand concessions from Parliament, primarily political equality.

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