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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. Which coworker of Wiener's did she make many new friends through?

2. What business was the first startup Wiener began working for in?

3. Where did Wiener end up renting her first shared apartment in Part I in San Francisco?

4. What happened every Tuesday at noon when Wiener worked at the data analytics startup?

5. What was one of the problem-solving questions Wiener's interviewer asked her at the startup in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does pivoting mean in the tech industry?

2. Why does Wiener think her friends would balk at working for a company like the analytics company?

3. What type of work does the first startup that Wiener begins working for do?

4. Why did Ian like to work at smaller-scale companies in general?

5. What does Wiener think, but not say, in response to the analytics CEO's comment to her that the company needed more women in leadership roles?

6. Which specific company does Wiener contend that it is almost impossible to use the internet without enriching?

7. Why does the e-book company fire Wiener?

8. How does Wiener feel as far as settling in to San Francisco during her first six months or so at the analytics startup?

9. How does the news that a National Security Agency contractor leaked classified information about the U.S. government's surveillance programs affect Weiner and her coworkers?

10. How does Wiener react to the movie the company takes employees to in Part I to celebrate the CTO's birthday?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When, and why, does Wiener become increasingly alarmed to view the escalation in messages that are meant to troll/harass that she is assigned to moderate at the open-source startup? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does the news about the NSA contractor and whistleblower who revealed the U.S. government's violations of citizens' privacy online affect Wiener's view about the work the data-analytics startup engages in? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What is Wiener's assessment about the tech industry's perspective on meritocracy and its relationship to the industry workforce and structure? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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