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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Emily White.
(b) Marne Levine.
(c) Clara Shih.
(d) Nitin Nohria.

2. What student at Harvard’s Kennedy School wrote an article imploring men to “Man Up on Family and Workplace Issues,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) Leymah Gbowee.
(b) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(c) Larry Summers.
(d) Kunal Modi.

3. 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) Jocelyn Goldfein.
(b) Mary Sue Coleman.
(c) Elise Scheck.
(d) Meg Whitman.

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 top 5% were out of the labor force in 2006?
(a) 43%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 90%.

5. 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”?
(a) Emily White.
(b) Rosalind Einhorn.
(c) Susan B. Anthony.
(d) Marlo Thomas.

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) “Feminazi.”
(b) “Queen bee.”
(c) “Rich bitch.”
(d) “Wolf.”

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

8. 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) Joanna Strober.
(c) Priti Choksi.
(d) Emily White.

9. Who is the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?
(a) Clara Shih.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Lant Pritchett.
(d) Stephen R. Covey.

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

11. For how many years does Sheryl Sandberg say her mother taught full-time after raising her children in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

12. Who “joined Facebook in 2008 and held a number of jobs throughout the company in communications, human resources, and mobile products,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?
(a) Don Graham.
(b) Molly Graham.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Omid Kordestani.

13. 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”?
(a) The breast pump.
(b) The internet.
(c) The baby bottle.
(d) The television.

14. 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) 20%.
(b) 43%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 90%.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

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

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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