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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the San Francisco office of the open-source startup called?
(a) The Enterprise.
(b) Mothership.
(c) HQ.
(d) The White House.

2. Where did Wiener go to participate in a hack house?
(a) New York City.
(b) Denver.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Phoenix.

3. What did Wiener routinely sign at the reception of the companies she visisted?
(a) An affadavit.
(b) A roster.
(c) An NDA.
(d) A visitor's list.

4. When had Wiener's parents first moved to Brooklyn?
(a) The early 1980s.
(b) The early 1990s.
(c) The mid-1970s.
(d) The early 2000s.

5. What question did the analytics CEO ask Wiener on the occasion of her one-year anniversary with the company?
(a) If it was what she had always envisioned herself as doing.
(b) If it was better than publishing.
(c) If it was the longest or shortest year of her life.
(d) If she liked it there.

6. What did Wiener say being the only woman on the nontechnical team and providing customer support to developers was like?
(a) Her worst-case scenario for a career.
(b) Immersion therapy for internalized misogyny.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) Her dream job.

7. What is the nickname of the company Wiener's friend worked for that made tools for developers and was widely used?
(a) The Central Library.
(b) Greek Knowledge.
(c) Knowledge Depository.
(d) The Library of Alexandria.

8. What was Wiener's first message to Patrick via the microblogging platform?
(a) She said his company contributed to economic inequality.
(b) She said tech needed to stop ruining everything she loved.
(c) She said his company made a frivolous product.
(d) She said his company's idea was actually created by someone else.

9. What feeling did Wiener sometimes get while looking for a new job in Part III?
(a) She was applying for summer camp.
(b) She was underqualified for most publishing jobs.
(c) She was overqualified for most tech jobs.
(d) She would never have a marketable skill.

10. What did Wiener's mother tell her about discussions about sexism?
(a) To ask her friends what they thought.
(b) Never to put it in writing unless she had a lawyer ready.
(c) Never to bring the topic up with managers.
(d) To go straight to the head of human resources about this type of problem.

11. What new team at the open-source startup did Wiener join in Part IV?
(a) Workplace diversity.
(b) Musical talent.
(c) Terms of Service.
(d) In-house innovators.

12. What did Wiener think biohacking might be a form of?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Privilege.
(c) Navel-gazing.
(d) Self-help.

13. What popular game did some women engineers use to make their points about discrimination and inequality in the tech world?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Bingo.
(c) Jenga.
(d) Charades.

14. What was Wiener's new title at the analytics startup?
(a) Results manager.
(b) Customer success manager.
(c) Management manager.
(d) Accounts manager.

15. In Part III, what was the analytics startup moving more towards?
(a) Robotics.
(b) Education.
(c) Venture capital.
(d) Enterprise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did some of Wiener's coworkers at the analytics startup see her?

2. Why did Weiner say the data analytics CEO was expensive to work for?

3. What did Wiener realize a lot of the developers at the open-source startup did in their spare time?

4. What did the billionaire who made his fortune from the microblogging platform tell Wiener in Part III?

5. What did the CEO of the open-source startup give the government official who came to visit HQ as a gift?

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