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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author call the “phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt” in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) Stereotype threat.
(b) Chronic anxiety.
(c) Abject racism.
(d) The impostor syndrome.

2. In Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth,” Sandberg notes that at Facebook, a company-wide Q&A is held when?
(a) On the first day of every month.
(b) Every Friday.
(c) Every other month.
(d) Every two weeks.

3. During the time that the author worked at Google, how many employees does she say she hired in Chapter 2: “Sit at the Table”?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 4,000.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 7: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave,” “When husbands work fifty or more hours per week, wives with children are” what percent “more likely to quit their jobs than wives with children whose husbands work less”?
(a) 56%.
(b) 44%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 90%.

5. The author cites a 2012 Pew study in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap” which found that among young people ages 18-34, what percentage of women rated “success in a high-paying career or profession” as important to their lives?
(a) 24%.
(b) 57%.
(c) 66%.
(d) 18%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the author say started working with her “right out of college and now runs mobile partnerships for Facebook” in Chapter 5: “Are You My Mentor?”

2. Where did the author’s grandmother go on to graduate from college, according to her story in Chapter 1: “The Leadership Ambition Gap”?

3. Who is the Columbia Business School professor that co-ran an experiment to test perceptions of women and men in the workplace in the 2003 study discussed in Chapter 3: “Success and Likeability”?

4. When the founder of LinkedIn offered Sheryl Sandberg a position in the company, she turned him down because she was how old and planning on having a second child?

5. Where did Sheryl Sandberg attend college for her undergraduate degree?

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