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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 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” that currently fathers make up less than what percentage of parents who work full-time inside the home?
(a) Less than 1%.
(b) Less than 10%.
(c) Less than 4%.
(d) Less than 2 %.

2. What percentage of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) 55%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 75%.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” what percentage of “highly qualified women with children are leaving careers, or ‘off-ramping,’ for a period of time” as a result of parenthood?
(a) 90%.
(b) 43%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 56%.

4. The author says in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It” that in between her junior and senior years of high school, she worked as a page in D.C. for what congressman?
(a) Garrett Neiman.
(b) William Lehman.
(c) Justin Osofsky.
(d) Tip O’Neill.

5. The author states in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” “According to the most recent analysis, when a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does” what percent more child care than the father?
(a) 20% more.
(b) 60% more.
(c) 40% more.
(d) 30% more.

6. What term does the author say emerged in the 1970s “to describe a woman who flourished in a leadership role, especially in male-dominated industries” and who also used her position to keep other female workers down?
(a) “Wolf.”
(b) “Rich bitch.”
(c) “Queen bee.”
(d) “Feminazi.”

7. Who is the dean of Weill Cornell Medical College that the author cites in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” as having said that the key for her in pursuing her career while raising children was learning where to focus her attention?
(a) Virginia Rometty.
(b) Dr. Laurie Glimcher.
(c) Dr. Peggy McIntosh.
(d) Marlo Thomas.

8. What percentage of U.S. working wives now out-earn their husbands, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
(a) 45%.
(b) 23%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 30%.

9. In Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth,” Sandberg notes that at Facebook, a company-wide Q&A is held when?
(a) Every two weeks.
(b) Every other month.
(c) Every Friday.
(d) On the first day of every month.

10. What Harvard Business School professor is cited in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” as answering the question of what men could do to advance women’s leadership with “the laundry”?
(a) Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
(b) Clara Shih.
(c) Gloria Steinem.
(d) Nitin Nohria.

11. Who is the author of “The New F-Word”?
(a) Sally Ride.
(b) Marianne Cooper.
(c) Michele Elam.
(d) Judith Rodin.

12. What author does Sandberg quote in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It” as having said, “Whoever has power takes over the noun—and the norm—while the less powerful get an adjective”?
(a) Emily White.
(b) Gloria Steinem.
(c) Justin Osofsky.
(d) Tennessee Williams.

13. Fred Kofman is described in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” as a former MIT professor and the author of what book?
(a) Tricks to Success.
(b) Conscious Business.
(c) Bossypants.
(d) Academic Achievement.

14. In what year was Sandra Day O’Connor appointed as an Associate Justice for the Supreme Court?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1981.

15. According to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” what percentage of mothers whose husband’s earnings landed in the middle percentiles were out of the labor force in 2006?
(a) 56%.
(b) 43%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 20%.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Women@Google founded by Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Wojcicki, and Marissa Mayer?

2. “Of the twenty-eight women who have served as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,” how many were married, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

3. A blogger for what magazine compared Sheryl Sandberg to Kim Polese, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?

4. Of Yale alumni who had reached their forties by 2000, what percentage of the men remained in the workforce, according to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

5. The author states in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” that “the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than” what?

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