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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 2,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 500.

2. Who is the chairman of the Washington Post Company that the author describes having met while working in Washington, D.C. over fifteen years ago in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?”
(a) Tim Geithner.
(b) Don Graham.
(c) Garrett Neiman.
(d) Josh Steiner.

3. 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) 57%.
(b) 66%.
(c) 24%.
(d) 18%.

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

5. The author cites a 2012 Pew study in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” which found that among young people ages 18-34, what percentage of women rated “success in a high-paying career or profession” as important to their lives?
(a) 18%.
(b) 57%.
(c) 66%.
(d) 24%.

6. Based on the 2003 study cited by the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” she concludes that “success and likeability” are correlated how for women?
(a) Positively.
(b) Abstractly.
(c) Negatively.
(d) Demurely.

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

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

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

10. What media mogul does the author cite in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” as having said, “I mentor when I see something and say, ‘I want to see that grow’”?
(a) Virginia Rometty.
(b) Oprah Winfrey.
(c) Shankar Vedantam.
(d) Sarah Palin.

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) $0.45.
(b) $0.67.
(c) $0.77.
(d) $0.59.

12. For how long does the author say she worked for Google in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) 3 and ½ years.
(b) 6 and ½ years.
(c) 2 and ½ years.
(d) 1 and ½ years.

13. How many women and girls does the author say are currently trapped in the sex trade worldwide in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 2.9 million.
(b) 4.4 million.
(c) 6.7. million.
(d) 1.5 million.

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

15. 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) 53%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 64%.
(d) 12%.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. According to the author in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap,” females make up what percentage of people earning undergraduate degrees today?

3. 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?

4. 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”?

5. 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?”

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