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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Railroad receipts increase from $40 million in 1851 to _____________ fifteen years later in 1867.
(a) $3 billion.
(b) $3.4 milion.
(c) $334 million.
(d) $34,000.

2. 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 Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.
(b) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.
(c) Sail from France with fellow French passengers.
(d) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.

3. Carnegie meets railroad's ____________ and initiates control of division operations when needed.
(a) Managers.
(b) Executives.
(c) Customers.
(d) Critics.

4. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.
(a) Eight.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

5. Who was the founder of Intel and Liz Claibourne?
(a) Indian Pooja Patel.
(b) Cuban Roberto Goizuetta.
(c) American Cuba Gooding, Jr.
(d) Hungarian Andy Grove.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It is _______________ private business firm in the world and is called "the standard railroad of the world."

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

4. Success is due to the first president, ________________, and the superintendent of the western division, Tom Scott, who brings Andrew Carnegie into the modern system of train control.

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

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