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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 25.
(d) 15.

2. 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?
(a) Shankar Vedantam.
(b) Padmasree Warrior.
(c) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
(d) Sabeen Virani.

3. Who is the author of “The New F-Word”?
(a) Michele Elam.
(b) Judith Rodin.
(c) Marianne Cooper.
(d) Sally Ride.

4. 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.

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

6. 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”?
(a) Erin Burnett.
(b) Gloria Steinem.
(c) Sharon Proczter.
(d) Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

7. 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) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

8. 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?
(a) 9.25 hours more.
(b) 3.5 hours more.
(c) 5.4 hours more.
(d) 8.5 hours more.

9. Who was the secretary of the Treasury when Sheryl Sandberg began working there in 1996?
(a) Omid Kordestani.
(b) Mary Sue Coleman.
(c) Kash Rangan.
(d) Robert Rubin.

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

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

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

13. 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) Eve.
(b) Superwoman.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

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

15. 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%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Yale alumni who had reached their forties by 2000, what percentage of the women remained in the workforce, according to the author in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”?

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

3. 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”?

4. 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”?

5. Fred Kofman is described in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” as a former MIT professor and the author of what book?

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