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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) U.C. Berkeley.
2. What does the author call the “phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt” in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) The impostor syndrome.
(b) Stereotype threat.
(c) Abject racism.
(d) Chronic anxiety.
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?
(a) $0.93.
(b) $0.67.
(c) $0.45.
(d) $0.59.
4. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” females make up what percentage of people earning undergraduate degrees today?
(a) 18%.
(b) 24%.
(c) 66%.
(d) 57%.
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”?
(a) Bob Steel.
(b) Nitin Nohria.
(c) Shankar Vedantam.
(d) Leymah Gbowee.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the chief technology officer of Cisco that the author cites in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table” from an article in The Huffington Post?
2. 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”?
3. The author says in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that she became pregnant with her first child in the summer of what year?
4. Who is the author’s grandmother whom she says was born exactly 52 years before she was, in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
5. The author states in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table” that when Facebook filed to go public, what newspaper “ran an article that kindly reminded me—and everyone else—that I had ‘been lucky’ and ‘had powerful mentors along the way’”?
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