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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the secretary of the Treasury when Sheryl Sandberg began working there in 1996?
(a) Kash Rangan.
(b) Robert Rubin.
(c) Mary Sue Coleman.
(d) Omid Kordestani.

2. 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) A Boy Named Sue.
(b) Free to Be … You and Me.
(c) Joey’s Song.
(d) Lost in the Moon.

3. 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) Padmasree Warrior.
(b) Judith Rodin.
(c) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(d) Pattie Sellers.

4. The author notes in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder” that “an internal report at Hewlett-Packard revealed that women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet” what percent of the criteria listed?
(a) 90%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 80%.

5. What social-psychological phenomenon is described with the observation that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype?
(a) “Fear of the Other.”
(b) “Stereotype threat.”
(c) “Tokenism.”
(d) “Abject racism.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the 13th President of the University of Michigan that was named in 2009 as one of the nation’s “10 best college presidents” by Time Magazine?

2. Who was the head of sales and business development at Google that gave Sheryl Sandberg her first opportunity to run a small deal team, according to the author in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder”?

3. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at Stanford, whom the author had an intense dinner conversation with about the price women pay for success?

4. The author says in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table” that while in college, both she and her brother took a course in what together?

5. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?,” “A study published by the Center for Work-Life Policy and the Harvard Business Review reported that” what percentage “of men at the level of vice president and above are hesitant to have a one-on-one meeting with a more junior woman”?

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