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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What children’s clothing company is described in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” as having once sold onesies for boys that said “Smart like Daddy” and onesies for girls that said “Pretty like Mommy”?
(a) Toddlers & Tots.
(b) Tea Collection.
(c) Gymboree.
(d) JanieandJack.

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

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

4. The author states in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” “A 2012 McKinsey survey of more than four thousand employees of leading companies found that 36 percent of the men wanted to reach the C-suite, compared to” what percentage of women?
(a) 66%.
(b) 24%.
(c) 18%.
(d) 57%.

5. According to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution,” women of color hold what percentage top corporate jobs today?
(a) 10%.
(b) 4%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 8%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What professional title does Sheryl Sandberg say her brother David holds in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

2. What coed college does the author say her mother attended in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

3. When does Sheryl Sandberg say she graduated college in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?

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. Where did Sheryl Sandberg attend college for her undergraduate degree?

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