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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Marissa Mayer named the CEO of Yahoo?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2009.

2. In a 2007 study of well-educated professional women who had left the paid workforce, what percentage cited their husbands as a critical factor in their decision, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
(a) 50%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 40%.

3. The author asserts in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All,” “Instead of pondering the question ‘Can we have it all?’ we should be asking” what more practical question?
(a) “Do we want it all?”
(b) “Can we do it all?”
(c) “Who will help?”
(d) “Are you my mentor?”

4. 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) 20%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 90%.

5. A blogger for what magazine compared Sheryl Sandberg to Kim Polese, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) Time.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Forbes.
(d) Fortune 500.

6. 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) 40% more.
(b) 60% more.
(c) 30% more.
(d) 20% more.

7. The author states in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” that “the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than” what?
(a) “The downside of painful silence.”
(b) “Falling on your face in failure.”
(c) “The downside of embarrassment.”
(d) “The downside of blissful ignorance.”

8. In Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” the author cites a 2009 study which found that what percentage of people “in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly”?
(a) 45%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 22%.

9. What Stanford professor is cited in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality” as having said, “We need to look out for one another, work together, and act more like a coalition”?
(a) Cameron Anderson.
(b) Judith Rodin.
(c) Rosalind Einhorn.
(d) Deborah Gruenfeld.

10. In what year did Sheryl Sandberg give a TED speech titled "Why we have too few women leaders”?
(a) 2012.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2005.

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

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

13. In a quote from Gloria Steinem in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All,” who is described as “the adversary of the women’s movement”?
(a) Mother Teresa.
(b) Superwoman.
(c) Eve.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

14. The author states in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” that a “survey of the Princeton class of 1975 found that 54 percent of the women foresaw work-family conflict compared to 26 percent of the men. The same survey of the Princeton class of 2006 found that” what percentage of the women anticipated work-family conflict?
(a) 62%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 90%.

15. In “The New F-Word,” who is the college English professor that observed something strange in her Introduction to Feminist Studies course?
(a) Sally Ride.
(b) Marianne Cooper.
(c) Michele Elam.
(d) Judith Rodin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?

2. Who is the CEO of American Express that the author says acknowledges sexism and bias in his meetings, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It”?

3. Who is quoted in the final chapter as having said, “Our job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make them ungrateful so they keep going”?

4. In Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” the author describes what individual that was “finishing up at Stanford’s Institute of Design when she was offered the chance to start a company at the same time that she learned she was pregnant”?

5. Who is the founder of LinkedIn?

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