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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 44%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 90%.

2. 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) San Francisco.
(c) Time.
(d) The Atlantic.

3. What kind of presentations does Sheryl Sandberg say she banned at Facebook meetings in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?
(a) Development presentations.
(b) Oral presentations.
(c) Sales presentations.
(d) PowerPoint presentations.

4. After working in the Obama White House, who joined Facebook to run global public policy, according to the author in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?
(a) Clara Shih.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Marne Levine.
(d) Nitin Nohria.

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”?
(a) Erin Burnett.
(b) Marlo Thomas.
(c) Nora Ephron.
(d) Gloria Steinem.

6. In what year did Sheryl Sandberg earn her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1997.

7. What professor from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine told Sandberg that he abolished the system of hand-raising after hearing her TEDTalk?
(a) Padmasree Warrior.
(b) Dr. Peggy McIntosh.
(c) Dr. John Probasco.
(d) Shankar Vedantam.

8. 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) 8 days old.
(c) 3 weeks old.
(d) 3 days old.

9. 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) Tip O’Neill.
(c) Justin Osofsky.
(d) William Lehman.

10. 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) The flu.
(b) Bronchitis.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Lice.

11. In what year was Sheryl Sandberg named the Treasury Department’s chief of staff?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1999.

12. 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) “Are you my mentor?”
(c) “Who will help?”
(d) “Can we do it all?”

13. Who is the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter?
(a) Nitin Nohria.
(b) Peggy Orenstein.
(c) Meg Whitman.
(d) Emily White.

14. 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) 40%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 30%.

15. Who was the CEO of Starbucks from 1987 through 2000?
(a) Omid Kordestani.
(b) Meg Whitman.
(c) Howard Schultz.
(d) Lant Pritchett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nonprofit to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in young people did Sheryl Sandberg’s mother found?

2. For how many years does Sheryl Sandberg say her mother taught full-time after raising her children in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?

3. 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?

4. What modern-day technological advancement has changed the equation of which parent is the primary caretaker for infants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

5. Who is the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?

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