Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” the author cites a 2009 study which found that what percentage of people “in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly”?
(a) 16%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 9%.
(d) 22%.
2. The author notes in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” that “searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of” what?
(a) “Stalling at the gate.”
(b) “Counting chickens before they hatch.”
(c) “Waiting for Prince Charming.”
(d) “Flying too close to the sun.”
3. What does the author call the “phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt” in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Abject racism.
(b) The impostor syndrome.
(c) Stereotype threat.
(d) Chronic anxiety.
4. For how long does the author say she worked for Google in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) 6 and ½ years.
(b) 2 and ½ years.
(c) 3 and ½ years.
(d) 1 and ½ years.
5. Who was the author’s mentor whom she began working for when he was chief economist at the World Bank?
(a) Larry Summers.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Josh Steiner.
(d) Virginia Rometty.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did Sheryl Sandberg give a TED speech titled "Why we have too few women leaders”?
2. The author states in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?,” “While asking a stranger to be a mentor rarely, if ever, works, approaching a stranger with” what “can yield results”?
3. Who is the chairman of the Washington Post Company that the author describes having met while working in Washington, D.C. over fifteen years ago in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?”
4. Who is the Treasury Secretary at Facebook that the author describes hosing a meeting for a few years ago in the opening of Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
5. In a 2007 study of well-educated professional women who had left the paid workforce, what percentage cited their husbands as a critical factor in their decision, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
|
This section contains 331 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
