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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 blissful ignorance.”
(c) “The downside of painful silence.”
(d) “The downside of embarrassment.”

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) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(b) Larry Summers.
(c) Leymah Gbowee.
(d) Kunal Modi.

3. Who is the former secretary of state that is cited in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality” for having said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women”?
(a) Madeleine Albright.
(b) Rosalind Einhorn.
(c) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(d) Betty Friedan.

4. What author does Sandberg cite in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” with the quote: “It’s not about biology, but about consciousness”?
(a) Elise Scheck.
(b) Bob Steel.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Gloria Steinem.

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

6. 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) 30%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 65%.

7. What American physicist and astronaut became the first American woman in space in 1983?
(a) Michele Elam.
(b) Sally Ride.
(c) Marianne Cooper.
(d) Rosalind Einhorn.

8. 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%.

9. What nonprofit to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in young people did Sheryl Sandberg’s mother found?
(a) Ear Peace: Save Your Hearing.
(b) Piercing Noise: Stop.
(c) High Frequency: End of Deafness.
(d) Noise Pollution: Make it Stop.

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

11. 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) Susan B. Anthony.
(c) Marlo Thomas.
(d) Rosalind Einhorn.

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

13. The author states in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” that truth is better served by using what kind of language?
(a) Eloquent language.
(b) Belittling language.
(c) Affectionate language.
(d) Simple language.

14. Who is the leader of Fidelity’s media and Internet investment group that the author discusses in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
(a) Gloria Steinem.
(b) Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
(c) Nitin Nohria.
(d) Kristina Salen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.C. Hastings law professor is cited in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality” for having said, “These mommy wars are so bitter because both groups’ identities are at stake because of another clash of social ideals: The ideal worker is defined as someone always available for work, and the ‘good mother’ is defined as always available to her children”?

2. 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?

3. Who famously “and foolishly refused to work with—or even to shake hands with—Gloria Steinem,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?

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. 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?

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