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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 216 - 275).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wiener see a homeless person wearing at the light-rail station in Part IV that gave her a jolt?
(a) Her own headphones that were recently stolen.
(b) A shirt with the name of her high school on it.
(c) A garbage bag to keep the rain off.
(d) One of the open-source startup's company hoodies.

2. What did the rationalist Wiener talked to at the party in Noe Valley think about contrarianism?
(a) It was overrated.
(b) It was underrated.
(c) It was too abstract for most people to grasp.
(d) It was used as a n excuse to fund more startups.

3. What did Wiener say the data analytics CEO believed in instead of marketing?
(a) Networks.
(b) Money.
(c) Brute force.
(d) Organic groundswell.

4. What did Wiener realize a lot of the developers at the open-source startup did in their spare time?
(a) Teach yoga classes.
(b) Cook.
(c) DJ.
(d) Run.

5. How did the tea tree outside Wiener's apartment die?
(a) It got a blight.
(b) A truck ran into it.
(c) Someone chopped it down.
(d) It died in the drought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Wiener during the 9/11 terror attacks?

2. What did the software developer who invited himself to HQ for lunch with Wiener tell her that upset her?

3. What did Wiener think the intellectual culture of Silicon Valley was closely related to?

4. Who did Wiener see at the airport in New York also flying to San Francisco?

5. What kind of party did Ian's company throw to pay tribute to ideas that were killed before they launched?

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