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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 did Wiener say being the only woman on the nontechnical team and providing customer support to developers was like?

2. What report title at the analytics startup did Wiener think was inappropriate?

3. When had Wiener's parents first moved to Brooklyn?

4. What did the CEO ask Wiener during the conversation about her work review in Part III?

5. What book did Wiener give Patrick when he said he was interested in incarceration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wiener think when she sees a homeless person wearing one of the open-source startup's branded hoodies?

2. How does Wiener meet Patrick?

3. What ends up happening to the e-book startup that was Wiener's first tech job?

4. What is the environment like at the open-source HQ?

5. What does the CEO ask the engineering team to do in Tahoe that Wiener later thinks is demeaning?

6. What does the solutions manager tell Wiener when she complains about a male co-worker's inappropriate sexual comments towards her?

7. What does the analytics CEO tell Wiener when she leaves the company?

8. How does Wiener feel about the company's trip to Tahoe?

9. How does Wiener feel on a visit back to New York City in Part IV?

10. What happens to the analytics startup as it grows and hires more people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Wiener continuously feel undervalued and looked-down upon as a customer service specialist in the tech industry? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining and exploring Wiener's reasons for leaving her work in the publishing industry in favor of the tech industry in the beginning of the memoir, citing specific references to the text to help support 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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