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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 65%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 30%.

2. “Of the twenty-eight women who have served as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,” how many were married, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
(a) 16.
(b) 27.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

3. The author states in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” “According to the most recent analysis, when a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does” what percent more child care than the father?
(a) 20% more.
(b) 60% more.
(c) 40% more.
(d) 30% more.

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 “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) Don Graham.
(b) Tip O’Neill.
(c) Frank Flynn.
(d) Bob Steel.

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

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

8. 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”?
(a) Madeleine Albright.
(b) Rosalind Einhorn.
(c) Betty Friedan.
(d) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

9. 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) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

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

11. According to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” what percentage of mothers whose husband’s earnings landed in the middle percentiles were out of the labor force in 2006?
(a) 20%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 43%.

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

13. 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) 45%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 12%.

14. What Harvard Business School professor is cited in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” as answering the question of what men could do to advance women’s leadership with “the laundry”?
(a) Clara Shih.
(b) Nitin Nohria.
(c) Gloria Steinem.
(d) Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

15. How much time did the author take as maternity leave from Google when she had her first child?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After a year or more of commuting between L.A. and the Bay Area, Sheryl Sandberg’s husband eventually left Yahoo and took a position as the CEO of what company, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?

3. 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”?

4. 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?

5. In what year does Sheryl Sandberg say her mother left the workforce to care for her ailing parents, in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?

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