Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. During the time that the author worked at Google, how many employees does she say she hired in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 500.
2. Where did the author’s grandmother go on to graduate from college, according to her story in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) U.C. Berkeley.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Yale University.
3. 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) 57%.
(d) 66%.
4. 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.
5. 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) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(b) Judith Rodin.
(c) Kash Rangan.
(d) Meg Whitman.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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”?
2. 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?
3. Who is described as the “deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Program” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
4. The author says in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that she became pregnant with her first child in the summer of what year?
5. 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?
|
This section contains 288 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
|
