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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a major problem in San Francisco when Wiener first moved there?
(a) Lack of public transport.
(b) A shortage of healthcare workers.
(c) Wildfire threats.
(d) Homelessness.

2. What photo did Wiener use for herself on a dating app?
(a) A picture of herself as a child.
(b) A picture of her dog.
(c) A collage of a Slovenian philosopher.
(d) A collage of pictures of her friends.

3. What business was the first startup Wiener began working for in?
(a) Home cooking.
(b) Ride-sharing.
(c) Medicine.
(d) E-books.

4. What did Wiener realize the founders of the first startup she worked at wanted her to do?
(a) Work overtime for free.
(b) Bring in more investors.
(c) Create her own job description.
(d) Buy stock in the company.

5. What did one of the CEO's type in a chat room that was a criticism about Wiener not meant for her to see in Part I?
(a) Her tech skills were not good enough for the job.
(b) She had not met her fundraising metrics.
(c) She was too interested in learning, not doing.
(d) She had failed to meet several deadlines.

6. What field did Wiener's new boyfriend work in?
(a) Criminal justice.
(b) Medical research.
(c) Robotics.
(d) Horticulture.

7. Why did Wiener think her friends would not like working in the tech industry?
(a) They would not likely find it fulfilling or interesting.
(b) They would never want to move to the West coast.
(c) Most of them shunned technology and tried to live in a more analog way.
(d) They did not think the salaries were high enough.

8. What was one of the problem-solving questions Wiener's interviewer asked her at the startup in Part I?
(a) How would she calculate the mass of the building they were in?
(b) How would she calculate her own salary?
(c) How would she calculate the number of people working for the U.S. postal system?
(d) How would she calculate how much pizza it would take to cover the floor of Grand Central Station?

9. What kind of music did Wiener begin listening to after starting at the data analytics company?
(a) Hip-hop.
(b) Jazz.
(c) EDM.
(d) Classical.

10. What is the name of the place in California were many tech startup companies are located?
(a) High Water.
(b) Scathing River.
(c) Silicon Valley.
(d) San Bernadino.

11. What did Wiener think good interface design did?
(a) Made something bad look good.
(b) Cultivated the mass suspension of disbelief.
(c) Brought more clients in.
(d) Shamed the competition.

12. What was one slogan on the data analytics company's t-shirts it asked employees to wear?
(a) I am data driven.
(b) Data geeks.
(c) We are we.
(d) Finding solutions in data.

13. What kind of information did a U.S. National Security Agency contractor leak to the media in Part II?
(a) Classified information about the government's surveillance programs.
(b) Classified information about the U.S. energy grid.
(c) Classified information about the U.S.'s flaws in fighting the war on terror.
(d) Classified information about the U.S.'s environmental vulnerabilities.

14. What did many of the workers use to get around the office at the data analytics startup?
(a) Scooters.
(b) Small bicycles.
(c) Roller skates.
(d) RipStiks.

15. Why did Wiener not like the idea of using ride-sharing apps?
(a) It seemed unsafe to her.
(b) It seemed too lazy.
(c) It seemed too exploitative.
(d) It seemed too expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company does Wiener join in Silicon Valley in Part I?

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

3. What section of the data analytics startup office did Wiener work at?

4. Where did the girlfriend of the analytics startup's CEO work?

5. What analogy does the data analytics CEO often use with employees to describe the nature of their business?

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