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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What section of the data analytics startup office did Wiener work at?
(a) The Over Zone.
(b) The Hot Zone.
(c) The Getting It Done Zone.
(d) The Solutions Zone.

2. What did Wiener realize was different about working at the data analytics startup from anywhere else she had ever worked?
(a) She was getting paid less than she ever had been.
(b) She was told she could create her own hours and did not have to be physically present in the office.
(c) She was given her own key to the office.
(d) She did not have to make anyone coffee for the first time in her professional life.

3. 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 they they are in school.
(c) He tells them they are like the colonists.
(d) He tells them they are at war.

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

5. What secondary tool did the data analytics company offer to its users?
(a) A fashion-analytics tool.
(b) A money-analytics tool.
(c) A pet-analytics tool.
(d) A people-analytics tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the problem-solving questions Wiener's interviewer asked her at the startup in Part I?

2. What did Wiener say the data analytics CEO believed in instead of marketing?

3. What business was the first startup Wiener began working for in?

4. How does Wiener find temporary accomodation in San Francisco the first time she moves there?

5. What did Wiener think good interface design did?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wiener describe the product that the analytics startup makes?

2. What are some of the drawbacks to living in San Francisco that Wiener discusses in Part I?

3. What activity does the analytics CEO give Wiener that he says will help her learn code?

4. Why does Wiener feel out of place when she interviews at the data analytics startup?

5. Why does the e-book company fire Wiener?

6. How does the news that a National Security Agency contractor leaked classified information about the U.S. government's surveillance programs affect Weiner and her coworkers?

7. What topic does Wiener challenge a group of engineers about in Part II, only to realize the engineers are pioneers in this field?

8. What is one of the parts of the interview process at the analytics startup that Wiener finds strange?

9. What are some things Ian and Wiener find they have in common?

10. What do Wiener's co-workers at the analytics startup tell her to expect from the CTO?

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