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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the age of __________ Carnegie manages a complex, multi-unit industrial enterprise and capitalizes on knowing the value of money based on what it can earn.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty-eight.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

3. In 1863, his investments pay $45,460 and by 1868, he receives __________ per year for an investment of $817 that he borrows to make.
(a) $561.
(b) $561,100.
(c) $56,110.
(d) $5,610.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnegie is cautious in his investments by limiting them to what?

2. Carnegie perfects business techniques to transform an iron and steel industry comprised of many small producers into what for the first time?

3. The business is _______________ with conductors and station agents collecting millions in small coin revenue.

4. Scot Andrew Carnegie became what?

5. Andrew Carnegie becomes known as the city's best _____________.

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