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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author became pregnant with her first child, she was running the online sales and operations groups for what corporation, as noted in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) Yahoo.
(b) SurveyMonkey.
(c) Google.
(d) Facebook.

2. What percentage of seats in parliament are currently held by women globally, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 80%.

3. Where was the first job that Sheryl Sandberg took after graduating college?
(a) Bank of America.
(b) The World Bank.
(c) Yahoo.
(d) The U.S. Treasury department.

4. Who is described in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability” as a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at Stanford, whom the author had an intense dinner conversation with about the price women pay for success?
(a) Rosalind Einhorn.
(b) Nitin Nohria.
(c) Deborah Gruenfeld.
(d) Judith Rodin.

5. Eric Schmidt, when offering Sheryl Sandberg her first position at Google, told her “that only one criterion mattered when picking a job.” What is that criterion?
(a) Power structure.
(b) Fast growth.
(c) Financial income.
(d) Room for advancement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as the “deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Program” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

2. Who joked that, “a man has to be Joe McCarthy in order to be called ruthless. All a woman needs to do is put you on hold,” according to the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?

3. How old does the author say she was when she first married, in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

4. What author is cited by Sandberg as having written in The New Yorker that for women, “self-doubt becomes a form of self-defense” in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?

5. Who is the highly regarded senior director of marketing at eBay whom the author says called her about a month after she began working for Facebook in Chapter 4: “It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author prefer to view the system of corporate advancement as a jungle gym rather than a ladder?

2. How is “stereotype threat” defined in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

3. What story does the author use to connect the title of Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?” with the theme of the chapter?

4. How does the author describe “impostor syndrome” in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

5. What does the author say of Padmasree Warrior in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?

6. How does Sandberg describe her own process of choosing mentees in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?”

7. What example does the author give of the phenomenon called “stereotype threat” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

8. What does the author say regarding the progress that has been made regarding gender equality in the past 100 years in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?

9. What does Sandberg relate of her own career plan in Chapter 4: "It's a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder"?

10. What author from The New Yorker is cited in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”? What did this author say about self-doubt?

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