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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Railroads link Pittsburgh to the Atlantic coast and eventually to the Pacific coast, with the _______________ the best of them all.
(a) CSX Corporation.
(b) BNSF Railway Company.
(c) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(d) Union Pacific.

2. Except for Tom, the youngest who is in school, Will and Margaret go to work by weaving and shoe-binding, and Andrew as what in a textile mill?
(a) An errand boy.
(b) A bobbin boy.
(c) A shoe-binder.
(d) A weaver.

3. 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.

4. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?
(a) Dunfermline.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Macon.
(d) Dublin.

5. Business transactions at the time take place over what type of communication?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Telegraphic.
(c) Letter.
(d) Internet.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?

3. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.

4. 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.

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

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