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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Virginia Rometty.
(b) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(c) Cameron Anderson.
(d) Judith Rodin.

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

3. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” what percentage of mothers are primary breadwinners and earn the majority of their family’s earnings?
(a) 33%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 56%.

4. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at Stanford, whom the author had an intense dinner conversation with about the price women pay for success?
(a) Judith Rodin.
(b) Nitin Nohria.
(c) Deborah Gruenfeld.
(d) Rosalind Einhorn.

5. 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) 66%.
(c) 57%.
(d) 24%.

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

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

8. 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”?
(a) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(b) Kash Rangan.
(c) Meg Whitman.
(d) Judith Rodin.

9. According to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution,” “A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on” what?
(a) “Academic credentials.”
(b) “Physical attractiveness.”
(c) “Past accomplishments.”
(d) “Personality.”

10. 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”?
(a) Judith Rodin.
(b) Padmasree Warrior.
(c) Leymah Gbowee.
(d) Lori Goler.

11. Who is the 13th President of the University of Michigan that was named in 2009 as one of the nation’s “10 best college presidents” by Time Magazine?
(a) Mary Sue Coleman.
(b) Justin Osofsky.
(c) Emily White.
(d) Dr. Peggy McIntosh.

12. 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) 2,000.
(d) 500.

13. 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”?
(a) 64%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 53%.
(d) 12%.

14. What children’s clothing company is described in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” as having once sold onesies for boys that said “Smart like Daddy” and onesies for girls that said “Pretty like Mommy”?
(a) JanieandJack.
(b) Tea Collection.
(c) Toddlers & Tots.
(d) Gymboree.

15. 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) 29.
(b) 10.
(c) 17.
(d) 33.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded Hearsay Social, described as “a software company that helps businesses manage their social media presence”?

2. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as the founder and CEO of Facebook?

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

4. After finishing business school, Sheryl Sandberg took a job as a consultant at what company in Los Angeles?

5. 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?

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