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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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”?
(a) Meg Whitman.
(b) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(c) Kash Rangan.
(d) Judith Rodin.
2. 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?
(a) Emily White.
(b) Josh Steiner.
(c) Padmasree Warrior.
(d) Virginia Rometty.
3. What coed college does the author say her mother attended in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Yale University.
(d) U.C. Berkeley.
4. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” females make up what percentage of people earning undergraduate degrees today?
(a) 24%.
(b) 57%.
(c) 18%.
(d) 66%.
5. In what year was Anita Summer hired as an economist by the Standard Oil Company, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1958.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is described by the author as dominance hormones in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
2. The author cites a 2012 Pew study in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” which found that among young people ages 18-34, what percentage of women rated “success in a high-paying career or profession” as important to their lives?
3. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” what percentage of mothers are primary breadwinners and earn the majority of their family’s earnings?
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?
5. Where did the author’s grandmother go on to graduate from college, according to her story in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
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