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Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author cites a 2012 Pew study in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” which found that among young people ages 18-34, what percentage of women rated “success in a high-paying career or profession” as important to their lives?
(a) 57%.
(b) 24%.
(c) 66%.
(d) 18%.

2. Who is the Treasury Secretary at Facebook that the author describes hosing a meeting for a few years ago in the opening of Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Tim Geithner.
(b) Lori Goler.
(c) Omid Kordestani.
(d) Mary Sue Coleman.

3. Who is the author’s grandmother whom she says was born exactly 52 years before she was, in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(b) Deborah Gruenfeld.
(c) Rosalind Einhorn.
(d) Mary Sue Coleman.

4. According to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution,” American women were paid how much for every dollar that their male counterparts were paid in 1970?
(a) $0.67.
(b) $0.45.
(c) $0.59.
(d) $0.93.

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

6. What percentage of seats in parliament are currently held by women globally, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 40%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 80%.

7. The author states in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder” that as of 2010, the average American had how many jobs from the ages of 18 to 46?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

8. 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?
(a) Positively.
(b) Abstractly.
(c) Negatively.
(d) Demurely.

9. What does the author call the “phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt” in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Abject racism.
(b) Stereotype threat.
(c) Chronic anxiety.
(d) The impostor syndrome.

10. 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”?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) People.
(d) Time.

11. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” females make up what percentage of people earning undergraduate degrees today?
(a) 57%.
(b) 18%.
(c) 66%.
(d) 24%.

12. 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.

13. Where does the author say she attended a large public high school growing up in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

14. What management committee partner at Goldman Sachs in the late 1990s established a “breakfast or lunch only policy” for employees to create equal access for men and women, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?”
(a) Bob Steel.
(b) Omid Kordestani.
(c) Mary Sue Coleman.
(d) Justin Osofsky.

15. 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) “Stereotype threat.”
(b) “Tokenism.”
(c) “Abject racism.”
(d) “Fear of the Other.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as IBM’s first female CEO in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

2. How old does the author say Mark Zuckerberg was when she graduated college in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder”?

3. What is described by the author as dominance hormones in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

4. Who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for “helping to lead the women’s protests that toppled Liberia’s dictator,” 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?

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