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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

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) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) U.C. Berkeley.
(d) Yale University.

2. The author states in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” “A study that looked at the starting salaries of students graduating with a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University found that” what percentage of men tried to negotiate for a higher offer?
(a) 57%.
(b) 69%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 45%.

3. 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) Josh Steiner.
(b) Padmasree Warrior.
(c) Emily White.
(d) Virginia Rometty.

4. Who is the highly regarded senior director of marketing at eBay whom the author says called her about a month after she began working for Facebook in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder”?
(a) Judith Rodin.
(b) Lori Goler.
(c) Padmasree Warrior.
(d) Leymah Gbowee.

5. Who is cited in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder” as having conceived the metaphor that “careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder”?
(a) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(b) Padmasree Warrior.
(c) Judith Rodin.
(d) Pattie Sellers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as one of the engineering directors at Facebook who held a meeting in 2011 with female engineers to encourage them to share the progress they’d made on products they were building?

2. According to the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” what magazine ran a story in November 2011 about female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and “illustrated it by superimposing the featured women’s heads onto male bodies”?

3. Based on the 2003 study cited by the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” she concludes that “success and likeability” are correlated how for women?

4. 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”?

5. The author states in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that of the 195 independent countries in the world, how many are led by women?

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