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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Deborah Gruenfeld.
(b) Rosalind Einhorn.
(c) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(d) Mary Sue Coleman.

2. 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) Dr. Peggy McIntosh.
(b) Clara Shih.
(c) Omid Kordestani.
(d) Mary Sue Coleman.

3. Who does the author describe as her “business crush” and eBay CEO in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder”?
(a) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(b) Mary Sue Coleman.
(c) Tim Geithner.
(d) Meg Whitman.

4. During the time that the author worked at Google, how many employees does she say she hired in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,000.

5. Who founded Hearsay Social, described as “a software company that helps businesses manage their social media presence”?
(a) Clara Shih.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Marlo Thomas.
(d) Omid Kordestani.

6. 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.

7. The author writes in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” that during the summer between her first and second years in business school, she received what award for having the highest first-year academic record?
(a) An Eisenhower Scholarship.
(b) A Henry Ford Scholarship.
(c) A William Taft Scholarship.
(d) A Rhodes Scholarship.

8. What author does Sheryl Sandberg quote in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder” as having observed, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any”?
(a) Padmasree Warrior.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Mark Zuckerberg.
(d) Virginia Rometty.

9. Whom does the author say “caught my attention at Facebook years ago when we were getting ready for our first senior-level meeting with the Walt Disney Company” in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?”
(a) Omid Kordestani.
(b) Justin Osofsky.
(c) Erin Burnett.
(d) Bob Steel.

10. The author notes in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” that “searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of” what?
(a) “Counting chickens before they hatch.”
(b) “Stalling at the gate.”
(c) “Flying too close to the sun.”
(d) “Waiting for Prince Charming.”

11. 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) “Abject racism.”
(c) “Fear of the Other.”
(d) “Tokenism.”

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

13. 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”?
(a) Garrett Neiman.
(b) Clara Shih.
(c) Marlo Thomas.
(d) Omid Kordestani.

14. When the author became pregnant with her first child, she was running the online sales and operations groups for what corporation, as noted in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) Facebook.
(b) SurveyMonkey.
(c) Yahoo.
(d) Google.

15. 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) Leymah Gbowee.
(c) Nitin Nohria.
(d) Shankar Vedantam.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. The author states in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” “A study that looked at the starting salaries of students graduating with a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University found that” what percentage of men tried to negotiate for a higher offer?

3. What profession did Sheryl Sandberg’s father enter into?

4. 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”?

5. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?,” “A study published by the Center for Work-Life Policy and the Harvard Business Review reported that” what percentage “of men at the level of vice president and above are hesitant to have a one-on-one meeting with a more junior woman”?

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