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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The lecturer said that __________ was the future of the computing world, which made Mark perk up.

2. Who agreed with Sean about the way that they handled one of the investors?

3. Even though Mark's site had only recently been launched, Sean saw that it already had almost __________ members, when he found it.

4. What was the name of the person who was recruited to help Mark and Eduardo with programming?

5. Who was the person/investor who decided to sink another $18,000 in the company in order to help the summer work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the limitation of other sites that were focused only on dating, which is not what thefacebook focused on, though it was a tool for that too?

2. What did Mark do in order to defend himself against the claims the twins brought up against him?

3. What happened after Eduardo's first day at his internship at the investment banking firm?

4. Why had Eduardo's shares gone up to 34% in the new legal documents he was asked to sign?

5. What was the plan for the summer when Eduardo would be heading off for an internship?

6. What eventually happened to Napster, according to the book's version of events?

7. What did Sean think about the name of Mark's new site - thefacebook?

8. What did Sean say might have destroyed the company, which helped talk Mark into pushing Eduardo out of thefacebook?

9. Why was Eduardo having an easier time at Harvard at the beginning of this section of the book?

10. Why did Mark decide to remove Sean from Facebook's staff?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mark is thought to possibly have gotten into the dorms in order to hack the facebooks.

Part 1: Do you think Mark would have had the courage to go into the other dorms?

Part 2: Why do you think that Mark wanted to hack into the facebooks?

Part 3: What would you do if you learned that someone else hacked into your Facebook account?

Essay Topic 2

Mark feels inspired by the words that Bill Gates shares at the lecture at Harvard, especially about dropping out of college and about AI.

Part 1: Do you think it's necessary to have a high class education to succeed in life?

Part 2: Why do you think Bill Gates inspires Mark?

Part 3: What person would inspire you to do more with your life?

Essay Topic 3

Even though Mark Zuckerberg might not have been socially graceful, he still creates Facebook, a social networking site.

Part 1: Do you consider yourself to be a socially comfortable person?

Part 2: How do you think Mark was able to see things that needed to be done in social networking that others didn't see?

Part 3: Why do you think Mark was so socially awkward?

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