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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Weiner refer to a very popular social media company?
(a) The social media site of creatives.
(b) The social media site that sucks time away.
(c) The social media site of our dreams.
(d) The social media site everyone hates but everyone logs into.

2. Who was Noah's roommate?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Ben.
(c) David.
(d) Ian.

3. How much was the startup's initial funding round that Wiener joins in New York City?
(a) 6 million dollars.
(b) 10 million dollars.
(c) 5 million dollars.
(d) 3 million dollars.

4. What area is Wiener's first job at the startup in San Francisco in?
(a) Legal.
(b) Customer support.
(c) Marketing.
(d) Communications.

5. What did Wiener's parents hope she would go into for a career?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Dance or theater.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Medicine or law.

6. What analogy does the data analytics CEO often use with employees to describe the nature of their business?
(a) He tells them they are in the Olympics.
(b) He tells them they are like the colonists.
(c) He tells them they are at war.
(d) He tells they they are in school.

7. What did the data analytics startup CEO suggest to Wiener that she should learn in Part II?
(a) How to cook.
(b) Coding.
(c) An instrument.
(d) Fashion design.

8. Which coworker of Wiener's did she make many new friends through?
(a) Ben.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Noah.
(d) Jennifer.

9. Who was assigned to help Wiener get oriented at the new startup in Part I?
(a) Ian.
(b) Noah.
(c) Lars.
(d) Skelly.

10. What was one of the problem-solving questions Wiener's interviewer asked her at the startup in Part I?
(a) How would she calculate how much pizza it would take to cover the floor of Grand Central Station?
(b) How would she calculate her own salary?
(c) How would she calculate the mass of the building they were in?
(d) How would she calculate the number of people working for the U.S. postal system?

11. What does Wiener refer to as the data analytics company's bread and butter?
(a) User interface.
(b) Word-of-mouth.
(c) Engagement.
(d) Ad clicks.

12. What kind of app did the data analytics CTO create for fun that he and Wiener talked about?
(a) A running app.
(b) A cocktail-and-literature app.
(c) A language studies app.
(d) A fashion app.

13. How does Wiener find temporary accomodation in San Francisco the first time she moves there?
(a) Through the company.
(b) Craigslist.
(c) Through a friend.
(d) A home-sharing platform.

14. What kind of information did a U.S. National Security Agency contractor leak to the media in Part II?
(a) Classified information about the government's surveillance programs.
(b) Classified information about the U.S.'s environmental vulnerabilities.
(c) Classified information about the U.S.'s flaws in fighting the war on terror.
(d) Classified information about the U.S. energy grid.

15. What did the data analytics CEO tell employees was the enemy of a successful startup?
(a) Hubris.
(b) Investors.
(c) Too many employees.
(d) Complacency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which company had bought Ian's company earlier in the year?

2. What secondary tool did the data analytics company offer to its users?

3. What did the cofounders prioritize at the startup Wiener joined in San Francisco in Part I?

4. What was a major problem in San Francisco when Wiener first moved there?

5. What did Wiener realize the founders of the first startup she worked at wanted her to do?

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