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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What economist at the first job the author took convinced her that attending business school would be a better alternative than going to law school?
(a) Leymah Gbowee.
(b) Padmasree Warrior.
(c) Lant Pritchett.
(d) Larry Summers.

2. Of Yale alumni who had reached their forties by 2000, what percentage of the women remained in the workforce, according to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?
(a) 43%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 90%.

3. Who was the dean that invited Sheryl Sandberg to speak in an interview with him at Harvard Business School in 2011?
(a) Dr. Peggy McIntosh.
(b) Nitin Nohria.
(c) Shankar Vedantam.
(d) Leymah Gbowee.

4. Who managed the Washington, D.C. office of McKinsey & Company in 1994 when Sheryl Sandberg interned there, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?
(a) Erin Burnett.
(b) Kristina Salen.
(c) Justin Osofsky.
(d) Larry Kanarek.

5. 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) Financial income.
(b) Room for advancement.
(c) Power structure.
(d) Fast growth.

Short Answer Questions

1. “Of the twenty-eight women who have served as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,” how many were married, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

2. Who is described as “president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

3. How much time did the author take as maternity leave from Google when she had her first child?

4. What percentage of U.S. working wives now out-earn their husbands, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

5. Who was the author’s mentor whom she began working for when he was chief economist at the World Bank?

(see the answer key)

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