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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) 2010.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2003.

2. The author says in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” that her husband Dave taught her how to change a diaper when their first son was how old?
(a) 2 months old.
(b) 3 days old.
(c) 3 weeks old.
(d) 8 days old.

3. Who is said in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” to have blazed a trail by having four children while being one of Google’s earliest and most valuable employees?
(a) Justin Osofsky.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Clara Shih.
(d) Susan Wojcicki.

4. What magazine did Barnard president Debora Spar write to in 2012 discussing successful women and guilt, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Time.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) The Atlantic.

5. About how many families with children in the U.S. are led by a single parent today, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?
(a) 65%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 45%.

6. The author asserts in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” that “Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for” what?
(a) “Disaster.”
(b) “Self-effacement.”
(c) “Success.”
(d) “Competition.”

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

8. 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) William Lehman.
(b) Garrett Neiman.
(c) Justin Osofsky.
(d) Tip O’Neill.

9. 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”?
(a) Reid Hoffman.
(b) Mary Sue Coleman.
(c) Pattie Sellers.
(d) Caroline O’Connor.

10. In what year was Geraldine Ferraro chosen as the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1984.

11. Who was the secretary of the Treasury when Sheryl Sandberg began working there in 1996?
(a) Omid Kordestani.
(b) Mary Sue Coleman.
(c) Kash Rangan.
(d) Robert Rubin.

12. How much time did the author take as maternity leave from Google when she had her first child?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 months.

13. 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”?
(a) 65%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 90%.

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) 90%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 45%.

15. What childhood friend of the author’s does she say “looks back fondly on being pregnant, saying she has never felt so productive. She not only worked her usual hours as an attorney but organized her house and put five years of photos into albums,” in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?
(a) Elise Scheck.
(b) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(c) Mary Sue Coleman.
(d) Meg Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” what percentage of mothers whose husband’s earnings landed in the top 5% were out of the labor force in 2006?

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

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. 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”?

5. About what percentage of married-couple families with children in the U.S. have two parents in the workforce today, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?

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