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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All,” “Instead of pondering the question ‘Can we have it all?’ we should be asking” what more practical question?
(a) “Are you my mentor?”
(b) “Can we do it all?”
(c) “Who will help?”
(d) “Do we want it all?”

2. Eric Schmidt, when offering Sheryl Sandberg her first position at Google, told her “that only one criterion mattered when picking a job.” What is that criterion?
(a) Power structure.
(b) Financial income.
(c) Fast growth.
(d) Room for advancement.

3. After finishing business school, Sheryl Sandberg took a job as a consultant at what company in Los Angeles?
(a) Yahoo.
(b) Walters & Williams.
(c) McKinsey & Company.
(d) Facebook.

4. What speaker from the Wellesley Centers for Women gave a talk called “Feeling Like a Fraud” when the author was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society?
(a) Mary Sue Coleman.
(b) Clara Shih.
(c) Dr. Peggy McIntosh.
(d) Omid Kordestani.

5. 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”?
(a) Meg Whitman.
(b) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(c) Mary Sue Coleman.
(d) Pattie Sellers.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When does Sheryl Sandberg say she graduated college in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?

3. What does Sheryl Sandberg say is the first step to correcting a problem in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?Being aware of the problem.

4. 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”?

5. The author notes in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” that “searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of” what?

(see the answer key)

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