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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of lawsuit did Wiener hear was brought against the open-source startup before she started there?
(a) A fraud case.
(b) A tax evasion case.
(c) A gender discrimination case.
(d) A murder case.

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

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

4. About how many employees were at the open-source startup when Wiener joined?
(a) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 200.
(d) 500.

5. How did Wiener feel among the computer science majors at the women in computing conference in Part IV?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Very comfortable.
(d) Out of place.

6. Which book did one engineer at the women in computing conference reference in Part IV?
(a) Bill Gates' memoir.
(b) The Feminine Mystique.
(c) The Tech Bible.
(d) The Tyranny of Structurelessness.

7. What made being back in New York City for a visit in Part IV strange for Wiener?
(a) She now had money to do things in her home city she could never do before.
(b) Her favorite restaurant was no longer there.
(c) Most of her friends had moved away.
(d) Her parents had separated in the interim when she was in San Francisco.

8. In terms of women's equality in the office, how did Wiener see herself?
(a) As the canary in the coalmine.
(b) As the feminist killjoy.
(c) As an ineffective force.
(d) As the voice of reason.

9. Which government official visited the open-source startup's headquarters in Part IV?
(a) Chief National Security Adviser.
(b) Secretary of Education.
(c) Secretary of Technology.
(d) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

10. What eventually happened to the e-book startup?
(a) It went on to produce the most popular e-reader in the USA.
(b) It lost all its money and folded.
(c) The search-engine giant bought it.
(d) The open-source startup bought it.

11. Who was Wiener's friend who was a digital rights activist?
(a) Parker.
(b) Ian.
(c) Noah.
(d) Ben.

12. What was Wiener's onboarding gift from the open-source startup?
(a) A step-count wristband.
(b) A gym membership.
(c) Cooking classes.
(d) A Google Fire stick.

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

14. What did the data analytics CEO do after firing Noah?
(a) He told everyone he would fire them too if they stepped out of line.
(b) He took a civil action against Noah.
(c) He asked all the other employees one by one if they thought he was wrong.
(d) He told Noah he would make it his business to ruin his reputation.

15. What kind of renaissance was San Francisco going through when she got there, according to Wiener?
(a) Climate-related.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Culinary.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part IV, what did Weiner compare clocking into work on some days to?

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

4. What book did Wiener give Patrick when he said he was interested in incarceration?

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

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