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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for “helping to lead the women’s protests that toppled Liberia’s dictator,” according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
(a) Leymah Gbowee.
(b) Shankar Vedantam.
(c) Nitin Nohria.
(d) Bob Steel.
2. According to the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” what magazine ran a story in November 2011 about female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and “illustrated it by superimposing the featured women’s heads onto male bodies”?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) People.
(d) Time.
3. What professional title does Sheryl Sandberg say her brother David holds in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Supreme Court Judge.
(b) Entertainment lawyer.
(c) Pediatric neurosurgeon.
(d) U.S. Congressman.
4. The author says in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution” that she became pregnant with her first child in the summer of what year?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2004.
5. According to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution,” “A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on” what?
(a) “Past accomplishments.”
(b) “Academic credentials.”
(c) “Physical attractiveness.”
(d) “Personality.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is described as “president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university” in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
2. What journalist once catalogued the derogatory descriptions of some of the first female world leaders, noting that “England’s Margaret Thatcher” was called “Attila the Hen,” according to the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?
3. Based on the 2003 study cited by the author in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability,” she concludes that “success and likeability” are correlated how for women?
4. During what decade did women become 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, according to the author in the Introduction: “Internalizing the Revolution”?
5. Where did the author’s grandmother go on to graduate from college, according to her story in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?
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