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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Google Goes Public.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "DNS" stand for?
(a) Domain Name Status.
(b) Domain Name Search.
(c) Domain Name Services.
(d) Domain Name Server.

2. What company eventually bought WebCrawler in 1995?
(a) Google.
(b) AOL.
(c) Yahoo.
(d) Microsoft.

3. How long does it take Google to go from zero to $3 billion?
(a) Three years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Six Years.
(d) Two years.

4. How does Google attempt to avoid the costly hiring spiral?
(a) It interviews people on a limited referral basis.
(b) It begins hiring only people their employees personally know.
(c) It has prospective employees go through an extensive series of interviews set up by committees.
(d) It consider hiring only those employees with a proven track record with other companies.

5. How does Google try to be "less evil" than Overture?
(a) It issues a press release declaring that Google has less spam than Overture.
(b) It does not allow advertisers to "buy their way" to the top of search listings.
(c) It rotates ad space so that key locations are shared amongst all advertisers.
(d) It adopts a "smiley face" logo to place on its Web pages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "SEC?"

2. What does Google do to offend Wall Street?

3. What leads Google to reconnect with Bill Gross and reconsider his business model?

4. During the months leading up to the stock opening, what does a former senior manager file a lawsuit against the company for?

5. Google declares that it will sell $2,718,281,828 shares as a tribute to mathematicians and engineers. What does the number 2,718,281,828 represent?

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