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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?,” “While asking a stranger to be a mentor rarely, if ever, works, approaching a stranger with” what “can yield results”?
(a) “Insignificant and repetitive questions.”
(b) “Complaints and questions.”
(c) “A note from a superior.”
(d) “A pointed, well-thought-out inquiry.”

2. Who is described as the “deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Program” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
(a) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(b) Meg Whitman.
(c) Pattie Sellers.
(d) Mary Sue Coleman.

3. 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?
(a) “A one-year plan.”
(b) “A two-year plan.”
(c) “A six-month plan.”
(d) “An eighteen-month plan.”

4. 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) Counting chickens before they hatch.
(b) Looking in a gift horse’s mouth.
(c) Birds of a feather.
(d) The chicken and the egg.

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

6. 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) Leymah Gbowee.
(d) Shankar Vedantam.

7. 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) Omid Kordestani.
(b) Clara Shih.
(c) Garrett Neiman.
(d) Marlo Thomas.

8. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as one of the engineering directors at Facebook who held a meeting in 2011 with female engineers to encourage them to share the progress they’d made on products they were building?
(a) Judith Rodin.
(b) Cameron Anderson.
(c) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(d) Virginia Rometty.

9. 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) 500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 2,000.

10. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” that what “is key to achieving more success”?
(a) “Earning high grades.”
(b) “Owning one’s success.”
(c) “Attending a top university.”
(d) “Earning initial success.”

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

12. The author states in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” “A 2012 McKinsey survey of more than four thousand employees of leading companies found that 36 percent of the men wanted to reach the C-suite, compared to” what percentage of women?
(a) 18%.
(b) 57%.
(c) 24%.
(d) 66%.

13. 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) Omid Kordestani.
(b) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(c) Shankar Vedantam.
(d) Mark Zuckerberg.

14. 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) $0.45.
(c) $0.67.
(d) $0.77.

15. When does Sheryl Sandberg say she graduated college in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1995.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that of the 195 independent countries in the world, how many are led by women?

2. 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”?

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

4. Who was the former chief of staff at the Treasury Department that gave Sheryl Sandberg the advice of figuring out what she wanted to do before she went to see the people who had the ability to hire her?

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

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