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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
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) JanieandJack.
(b) Gymboree.
(c) Toddlers & Tots.
(d) Tea Collection.
2. What percentage of seats in parliament are currently held by women globally, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 80%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 20%.
3. What 1972 song does the author describe in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” as being about a little boy who begs his father for a traditional girl’s toy?
(a) Free to Be … You and Me.
(b) Joey’s Song.
(c) Lost in the Moon.
(d) A Boy Named Sue.
4. What journalist once catalogued the derogatory descriptions of some of the first female world leaders, noting that “England’s Margaret Thatcher” was called “Attila the Hen,” according to the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?
(a) Erin Burnett.
(b) Shankar Vedantam.
(c) Oprah Winfrey.
(d) Bob Steel.
5. The author asserts in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” “The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become” what?
(a) “Self-fulfilling prophecies.”
(b) “Regulations toward marriage.”
(c) “Barriers to happiness.”
(d) “Facts in adulthood.”
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. During the Great Depression, the author says that her grandmother was pulled out of Morris High School to help support the household by doing what?
3. What author does Sheryl Sandberg quote in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder” as having observed, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any”?
4. During what decade did women become 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
5. What author is cited by Sandberg as having written in The New Yorker that for women, “self-doubt becomes a form of self-defense” in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?
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