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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nonprofit to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in young people did Sheryl Sandberg’s mother found?
(a) Ear Peace: Save Your Hearing.
(b) Noise Pollution: Make it Stop.
(c) High Frequency: End of Deafness.
(d) Piercing Noise: Stop.

2. Who is quoted in the final chapter as having said, “Our job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make them ungrateful so they keep going”?
(a) Rosalind Einhorn.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Susan B. Anthony.
(d) Marlo Thomas.

3. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner,” how many states in the U.S. provide any income replacement for the care of a new baby?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

4. What Harvard Business School professor is cited in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” as answering the question of what men could do to advance women’s leadership with “the laundry”?
(a) Nitin Nohria.
(b) Gloria Steinem.
(c) Clara Shih.
(d) Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

5. In what year was Marissa Mayer named the CEO of Yahoo?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

6. Who is the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?
(a) Clara Shih.
(b) Emily White.
(c) Stephen R. Covey.
(d) Lant Pritchett.

7. What percentage of U.S. working wives now out-earn their husbands, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Make Your Partner a Real Partner”?
(a) 12%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 23%.

8. The author says in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth” that a recent study found that what was the phrase most frequently used to describe the most effective leaders?
(a) “Empathetic compassion.”
(b) “The ‘IT’ factor.”
(c) “Sense of humor.”
(d) “Confidence and gratitude.”

9. For how many years does Sheryl Sandberg say her mother taught full-time after raising her children in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

10. What kind of presentations does Sheryl Sandberg say she banned at Facebook meetings in Chapter 6: “Seek and Speak Your Truth”?
(a) Oral presentations.
(b) Sales presentations.
(c) Development presentations.
(d) PowerPoint presentations.

11. What U.C. Hastings law professor is cited in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality” for having said, “These mommy wars are so bitter because both groups’ identities are at stake because of another clash of social ideals: The ideal worker is defined as someone always available for work, and the ‘good mother’ is defined as always available to her children”?
(a) Judith Rodin.
(b) Leymah Gbowee.
(c) Joan Williams.
(d) Rosalind Einhorn.

12. Who is said in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” to have blazed a trail by having four children while being one of Google’s earliest and most valuable employees?
(a) Justin Osofsky.
(b) Clara Shih.
(c) Susan Wojcicki.
(d) Emily White.

13. A blogger for what magazine compared Sheryl Sandberg to Kim Polese, according to the author in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) Forbes.
(b) Time.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Fortune 500.

14. In what year does Sheryl Sandberg say her mother left the workforce to care for her ailing parents, in Chapter 11: “Working Together Toward Equality”?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2006.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2003.

15. The author says in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It” that in between her junior and senior years of high school, she worked as a page in D.C. for what congressman?
(a) Tip O’Neill.
(b) Garrett Neiman.
(c) William Lehman.
(d) Justin Osofsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the CEO of Starbucks from 1987 through 2000?

2. Who is the professor of economics at Cornell that the author cites in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” as saying, “The antiquated rhetoric of ‘having it all’ disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs”?

3. About what percentage of married-couple families with children in the U.S. have two parents in the workforce today, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All”?

4. Who is the dean of Weill Cornell Medical College that the author cites in Chapter 9: “The Myth of Doing It All” as having said that the key for her in pursuing her career while raising children was learning where to focus her attention?

5. What author does Sandberg quote in Chapter 10: “Let’s Start Talking About It” as having said, “Whoever has power takes over the noun—and the norm—while the less powerful get an adjective”?

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