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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What professor at Harvard Business School taught the social marketing classes that Sheryl Sandberg studied during her second year earning her M.B.A.?
(a) Larry Summers.
(b) Tim Geithner.
(c) Kash Rangan.
(d) Rosalind Einhorn.

2. The internal and external barriers that women face in the workplace are related by the author using what metaphor in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) Birds of a feather.
(b) Counting chickens before they hatch.
(c) Looking in a gift horse’s mouth.
(d) The chicken and the egg.

3. How old does the author say she was when she first married, in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) 30.
(b) 26.
(c) 29.
(d) 24.

4. Who is described as IBM’s first female CEO in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Erin Burnett.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Virginia Rometty.
(d) Clara Shih.

5. The author states in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that of the 195 independent countries in the world, how many are led by women?
(a) 10.
(b) 33.
(c) 17.
(d) 29.

6. Where did Sheryl Sandberg attend college for her undergraduate degree?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) U.C. Berkeley.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Rutgers University.

7. 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) Lant Pritchett.
(b) Larry Summers.
(c) Padmasree Warrior.
(d) Leymah Gbowee.

8. When did the Arab Spring begin?
(a) October, 2011.
(b) January, 2010.
(c) September, 2012.
(d) December, 2010.

9. 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?
(a) European intellectual history.
(b) Contemporary drama.
(c) Advanced economics.
(d) Postmodern literature.

10. Who is the Columbia Business School professor that co-ran an experiment to test perceptions of women and men in the workplace in the 2003 study discussed in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?
(a) Justin Osofsky.
(b) Josh Steiner.
(c) Clara Shih.
(d) Frank Flynn.

11. In 2010, women were paid how much for every dollar that their male counterparts were paid, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) $0.59.
(b) $0.67.
(c) $0.45.
(d) $0.77.

12. According to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution,” women of color hold what percentage top corporate jobs today?
(a) 10%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 4%.
(d) 8%.

13. What coed college does the author say her mother attended in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) U.C. Berkeley.
(d) Yale University.

14. 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”?
(a) Shankar Vedantam.
(b) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(c) Omid Kordestani.
(d) Mark Zuckerberg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does the author say she worked for Google in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder,” “Just as I believe everyone should have a long-term dream, I also believe everyone should have” what?

3. 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”?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” that what “is key to achieving more success”?

5. Who is described in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” as the founder of CollegeSpring, “a nonprofit that provides SAT tutoring and college counseling to low-income students”?

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