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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” females make up what percentage of people earning undergraduate degrees today?
(a) 66%.
(b) 24%.
(c) 18%.
(d) 57%.

2. 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) 29.
(b) 10.
(c) 33.
(d) 17.

3. 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) Looking in a gift horse’s mouth.
(b) Counting chickens before they hatch.
(c) The chicken and the egg.
(d) Birds of a feather.

4. What is described by the author as stress hormones in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Calcitonin.
(b) Testosterone.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) Cortisol.

5. How old does the author say she was when she first married, in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) 26.
(b) 24.
(c) 29.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author became pregnant with her first child, she was running the online sales and operations groups for what corporation, as noted in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?

2. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at Stanford, whom the author had an intense dinner conversation with about the price women pay for success?

3. What speaker from the Wellesley Centers for Women gave a talk called “Feeling Like a Fraud” when the author was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society?

4. What is described by the author as dominance hormones in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

5. During the time that the author worked at Google, how many employees does she say she hired in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

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