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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the company that kicked Sean Parker out of his Plaxo company?

2. Where did Eduardo get an internship for the summer, so he decided to go there?

3. The lecturer that Mark listened to also talked about how he _________ in order to start his own company.

4. What was the name of the person who was recruited to help Mark and Eduardo with programming?

5. The Facebook team was thinking about adding a feature: a live _________, which would help members see what was happening.

Short Essay Questions

1. What eventually happened to Napster, according to the book's version of events?

2. What was Mark's attitude about the legal issue between himself and Eduardo?

3. What would Mark need if he were faced with a lawsuit against the twins, even though Sean thought it was baseless?

4. Why was Eduardo having an easier time at Harvard at the beginning of this section of the book?

5. What did Eduardo do when he felt that Mark was continuing to ignore him and his concerns?

6. Why did Mark decide to remove Sean from Facebook's staff?

7. Why did the twins think they were at a serious disadvantage when launching their site - ConnectU?

8. What did Mark say in an email that he sent to Eduardo during the first part of this chapter?

9. What did the lawyer tell Eduardo about how he was going to be related to Facebook?

10. What was the limitation of other sites that were focused only on dating, which is not what thefacebook focused on, though it was a tool for that too?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mark feels inspired by the words that Bill Gates shares at the lecture at Harvard, especially about dropping out of college and about AI.

Part 1: Do you think it's necessary to have a high class education to succeed in life?

Part 2: Why do you think Bill Gates inspires Mark?

Part 3: What person would inspire you to do more with your life?

Essay Topic 2

Mark is thought to possibly have gotten into the dorms in order to hack the facebooks.

Part 1: Do you think Mark would have had the courage to go into the other dorms?

Part 2: Why do you think that Mark wanted to hack into the facebooks?

Part 3: What would you do if you learned that someone else hacked into your Facebook account?

Essay Topic 3

Facebook seems to be popular because of it connects people who already know each other.

Part 1: Why do you think Facebook is so popular today?

Part 2: What are your impressions of Facebook and how it connects you to others?

Part 3: Do you think Facebook is something that helps society as a whole?

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