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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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”?
(a) Mother Teresa.
(b) Superwoman.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Eve.

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) 3 weeks old.
(b) 8 days old.
(c) 3 days old.
(d) 2 months old.

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

4. In Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” the author cites a 2009 study which found that what percentage of people “in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly”?
(a) 16%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 9%.
(d) 22%.

5. Who accompanied Sheryl Sandberg on a trip to New York to speak at the Women’s Media Center, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It”?
(a) Shankar Vedantam.
(b) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(c) Kim Malone Scott.
(d) Judith Rodin.

6. 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) Time.
(c) Fortune 500.
(d) The New Yorker.

7. 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) 90%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 43%.

8. What language does the author describe Mark Zuckerberg deciding to learn a few years ago in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?
(a) Russian.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Japanese.

9. Who is the CEO of American Express that the author says acknowledges sexism and bias in his meetings, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It”?
(a) Ken Chenault.
(b) Frank Flynn.
(c) Cameron Anderson.
(d) Vittorio Colao.

10. 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 Atlantic.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Time.
(d) San Francisco.

11. What company did the author’s husband found in L.A. and then sell to Yahoo, according to the narrative in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
(a) Google.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Launch Media.
(d) SurveyMonkey.

12. In what year was Sandra Day O’Connor appointed as an Associate Justice for the Supreme Court?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1992.

13. In “The New F-Word,” who is the college English professor that observed something strange in her Introduction to Feminist Studies course?
(a) Michele Elam.
(b) Judith Rodin.
(c) Sally Ride.
(d) Marianne Cooper.

14. 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) Reid Hoffman.
(c) Caroline O’Connor.
(d) Pattie Sellers.

15. The author points out a study in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” that showed “that wives who engage in gatekeeping behaviors do” how many more hours of “family work per week than wives who take a more collaborative approach”?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dean of Weill Cornell Medical College that the author cites in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” as having said that the key for her in pursuing her career while raising children was learning where to focus her attention?

2. Who is the professor of economics at Cornell that the author cites in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” as saying, “The antiquated rhetoric of ‘having it all’ disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs”?

3. In what year was Geraldine Ferraro chosen as the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party?

4. Who was the secretary of the Treasury when Sheryl Sandberg began working there in 1996?

5. 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?

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