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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) $0.77.
(d) $0.45.

2. 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) Mary Sue Coleman.
(c) Rosalind Einhorn.
(d) Jocelyn Goldfein.

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) “An eighteen-month plan.”
(c) “A six-month plan.”
(d) “A two-year plan.”

4. Where was the first job that Sheryl Sandberg took after graduating college?
(a) The World Bank.
(b) The U.S. Treasury department.
(c) Yahoo.
(d) Bank of America.

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

6. 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) Toddlers & Tots.
(b) Gymboree.
(c) JanieandJack.
(d) Tea Collection.

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) A Rhodes Scholarship.
(b) A William Taft Scholarship.
(c) A Henry Ford Scholarship.
(d) An Eisenhower Scholarship.

8. 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) Looking in a gift horse’s mouth.
(c) Counting chickens before they hatch.
(d) The chicken and the egg.

9. The author asserts in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” “The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become” what?
(a) “Self-fulfilling prophecies.”
(b) “Regulations toward marriage.”
(c) “Barriers to happiness.”
(d) “Facts in adulthood.”

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

11. 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) The New Yorker.
(b) People.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Time.

12. 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) 33.
(b) 17.
(c) 10.
(d) 29.

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

14. Who is the chief technology officer of Cisco that the author cites in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table” from an article in The Huffington Post?
(a) Virginia Rometty.
(b) Josh Steiner.
(c) Padmasree Warrior.
(d) Emily White.

15. 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?
(a) 15%.
(b) 69%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 57%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What professional title does Sheryl Sandberg say her brother David holds in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

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?

3. The author notes in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder” that “an internal report at Hewlett-Packard revealed that women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet” what percent of the criteria listed?

4. Who was the dean that invited Sheryl Sandberg to speak in an interview with him at Harvard Business School in 2011?

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?

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