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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Climb Begins.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Will is unable to catch on to new opportunities and reverts back to weaving and selling his wares on the street, which does what?
(a) Provides a significant income for his family.
(b) Destroys his self-confidence and shames his family.
(c) Builds his self-confidence and brings pride to his family.
(d) Brings him more work than when he had his factory job.

2. Carnegie perfects business techniques to transform an iron and steel industry comprised of many small producers into what for the first time?
(a) No business.
(b) Small business.
(c) Big business.
(d) Government-controlled business.

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

4. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?
(a) Sail from France with fellow French passengers.
(b) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.
(c) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.
(d) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.

5. What characterizes America?
(a) The "American pride."
(b) The "American car."
(c) The "American dream."
(d) The "American willpower."

Short Answer Questions

1. When his father dies in 1855, Andrew calls him what?

2. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?

3. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.

4. This old craft is destroyed in _______ years, along with Will Carnegie's job and his town's main source of income.

5. Andrew succeeds in the mastery of what business techniques?

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