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

2. How many of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 33.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 21.

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

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

5. 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) Padmasree Warrior.
(c) Josh Steiner.
(d) Emily White.

6. The author states in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” that “Studies show that mentors select protégés based on” what?
(a) “Credentials and past achievements.”
(b) “Appearance and personality.”
(c) “Performance and potential.”
(d) “Need and ability to give.”

7. After finishing business school, Sheryl Sandberg took a job as a consultant at what company in Los Angeles?
(a) Yahoo.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Walters & Williams.
(d) McKinsey & Company.

8. 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.

9. Eric Schmidt, when offering Sheryl Sandberg her first position at Google, told her “that only one criterion mattered when picking a job.” What is that criterion?
(a) Power structure.
(b) Room for advancement.
(c) Financial income.
(d) Fast growth.

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

11. What professor at Harvard Business School taught the social marketing classes that Sheryl Sandberg studied during her second year earning her M.B.A.?
(a) Larry Summers.
(b) Tim Geithner.
(c) Rosalind Einhorn.
(d) Kash Rangan.

12. What journalist once catalogued the derogatory descriptions of some of the first female world leaders, noting that “England’s Margaret Thatcher” was called “Attila the Hen,” according to the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?
(a) Shankar Vedantam.
(b) Erin Burnett.
(c) Bob Steel.
(d) Oprah Winfrey.

13. 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) 10.
(b) 17.
(c) 29.
(d) 33.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table” that when Facebook filed to go public, what newspaper “ran an article that kindly reminded me—and everyone else—that I had ‘been lucky’ and ‘had powerful mentors along the way’”?

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

3. 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”?

4. How many women and girls does the author say are currently trapped in the sex trade worldwide in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?

5. What was the author voted as by her senior class, according to the narrative in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?

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