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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the co-author of Getting to 50/50 whom the author says credited a compelling job for her decision to return to the workplace after childbirth in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?
(a) Pattie Sellers.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Priti Choksi.
(d) Joanna Strober.

2. What “legendary Massachusetts representative” was the Speaker of the House at the time that Sheryl Sandberg worked as a page for her hometown congressman in D.C. between junior and senior year of high school?
(a) Bob Steel.
(b) Don Graham.
(c) Frank Flynn.
(d) Tip O’Neill.

3. In Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All,” the author describes going to a business conference with her children and taking the eBay plane. What did her daughter contract during this trip?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Bronchitis.
(c) The flu.
(d) Lice.

4. 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 2 %.
(d) Less than 4%.

5. What mythological figure does the author use as a metaphor when discussing the concept of striving to “have it all” in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?
(a) Cyclops.
(b) Medusa.
(c) Icarus.
(d) Pegasus.

6. The author asserts in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” “When husbands work fifty or more hours per week, wives with children are” what percent “more likely to quit their jobs than wives with children whose husbands work less”?
(a) 90%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 44%.
(d) 56%.

7. 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) Caroline O’Connor.
(b) Reid Hoffman.
(c) Mary Sue Coleman.
(d) Pattie Sellers.

8. 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) Gloria Steinem.
(b) Justin Osofsky.
(c) Emily White.
(d) Tennessee Williams.

9. 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”?
(a) 12%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 30%.

10. The author states in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” that in 2009, married middle-income parents worked about how many more hours per week than in 1979?
(a) 8.5 hours more.
(b) 5.4 hours more.
(c) 3.5 hours more.
(d) 9.25 hours more.

11. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” how many states in the U.S. provide any income replacement for the care of a new baby?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

14. The author says in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” that a recent study found that what was the phrase most frequently used to describe the most effective leaders?
(a) “The ‘IT’ factor.”
(b) “Sense of humor.”
(c) “Empathetic compassion.”
(d) “Confidence and gratitude.”

15. After giving her TEDTalk, Sheryl Sandberg received numerous letters from women who were inspired by it. One of her favorites that she discusses in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It” came from what consultant in Dubai?
(a) Sabeen Virani.
(b) Shankar Vedantam.
(c) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(d) Padmasree Warrior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comic autobiography does the author cite by Tina Fey in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?

2. In what year was Marissa Mayer named the CEO of Yahoo?

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

4. In “The New F-Word,” who is the college English professor that observed something strange in her Introduction to Feminist Studies course?

5. Who gave a 1996 commencement speech at Wellesley and, speaking of the difficulty of juggling a career and family, said, “It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications”?

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