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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The internal and external barriers that women face in the workplace are related by the author using what metaphor in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) Birds of a feather.
(b) Looking in a gift horse’s mouth.
(c) Counting chickens before they hatch.
(d) The chicken and the egg.
2. What social-psychological phenomenon is described with the observation that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype?
(a) “Fear of the Other.”
(b) “Stereotype threat.”
(c) “Abject racism.”
(d) “Tokenism.”
3. What 1972 song does the author describe in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” as being about a little boy who begs his father for a traditional girl’s toy?
(a) Joey’s Song.
(b) A Boy Named Sue.
(c) Lost in the Moon.
(d) Free to Be … You and Me.
4. The author asserts in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” “The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become” what?
(a) “Self-fulfilling prophecies.”
(b) “Regulations toward marriage.”
(c) “Barriers to happiness.”
(d) “Facts in adulthood.”
5. The author states in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that of the 195 independent countries in the world, how many are led by women?
(a) 33.
(b) 10.
(c) 29.
(d) 17.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did the author’s grandmother go on to graduate from college, according to her story in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
2. How many women and girls does the author say are currently trapped in the sex trade worldwide in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
3. According to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution,” American women were paid how much for every dollar that their male counterparts were paid in 1970?
4. Who is described as “president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
5. Who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for “helping to lead the women’s protests that toppled Liberia’s dictator,” according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
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