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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In a quote from Gloria Steinem in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All,” who is described as “the adversary of the women’s movement”?
(a) Superwoman.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Eve.
(d) Mother Teresa.
2. 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”?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1990s.
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) 66%.
(c) 57%.
(d) 24%.
4. What coed college does the author say her mother attended in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) U.C. Berkeley.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.
5. What is described by the author as stress hormones in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Estrogen.
(b) Testosterone.
(c) Calcitonin.
(d) Cortisol.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the leader of Fidelity’s media and Internet investment group that the author discusses in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
2. 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”?
3. What Harvard Business School professor is cited in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” as answering the question of what men could do to advance women’s leadership with “the laundry”?
4. Who is the professor of economics at Cornell that the author cites in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” as saying, “The antiquated rhetoric of ‘having it all’ disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs”?
5. Who gave a 1996 commencement speech at Wellesley and, speaking of the difficulty of juggling a career and family, said, “It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications”?
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