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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A how seriously large companies take women’s safety.
B how the legal system works to remove sexual harassers immediately.
C given the benefit of the doubt when they report sexual harassment.
D how women who report sexual harassment are silenced and retaliated against.
Question #2
A many tech companies have a toxic culture of sexual harassment against women.
B women on average prefer people to things.
C they are told that computer engineering is not “for girls.”
D they face discrimination in the hiring process.
Question #3
A of their general anti-social tendencies.
B of their greater attention to detail and patience.
C they made up the majority of computer hardware engineers.
D they were considered creative risk-takers.
Question #4
A the majority of women are still stay-at-home mothers.
B job growth overall has slowed.
C companies are afraid of reverse discrimination lawsuits.
D women have crossed into male-dominated fields, but men have yet to move into female-dominated fields in similar numbers.
Question #5
A when the field grows so fast and cannot keep up with demand for workers.
B when the supply of workers outpaces demand for the product.
C when large numbers of women enter it.
D when large number of men enter it.
Question #6
A employers make hiring decisions at random so as to not discriminate.
B employers have a certain number of jobs that they must fill with a candidate who is a person of color.
C employers make assumptions about how workers will perform based on the groups to which they belong.
D employers have a certain number of jobs that they must fill with a female candidate.
Question #7
A these jobs are primarily being filled by college-educated men.
B These jobs have high concentrations of women since they represent formerly unpaid tasks historically performed by women.
C highly educated women are filling these jobs.
D there are not enough men of working age to fill all the new jobs.
Question #8
A 50% female.
B 75% male.
C 99% male.
D 75% female.
Question #9
A become an irrelevant measure
B increased significantly
C decreased significantly
D stayed about the same
Question #10
A a college education
B book smarts
C commonsense
D getting a good white collar job
Question #11
A putting minimal effort into school.
B working hard to get into college.
C competing to be at the top of their class.
D valuing an education over money.
Question #12
A the fact that boy are less likely to graduate, have lower GPAs, and are more likely to be disciplined in school than girls.
B the lower rates of college enrollment for girls than for boys.
C the fact that boys are exceeding girls in AP test scores across all subject areas.
D the large numbers of girls who drop out of high school compared to boys.
Question #13
A having unrealistically positive views of yourself motivates effort and persistence on challenging tasks.
B people with more pessimistic personalities do better on exams.
C people with more positive outlooks do worse on exams.
D if students feel more positively toward their teachers they will do better in the class.
Question #14
A girls score higher on math tests than boys.
B men are afraid that they will commit sexual harassment without realizing it.
C it contributes to domain disengagement from math and science.
D women don’t want to be considered manly for liking math and science.
Question #15
A their scores went up.
B their scores went down.
C they quit the test halfway through.
D they scored the same as male students.
Question #16
A the person scoring the test relies on stereotypes rather than the actual answers.
B the pressure leads to women doing better.
C that it helps students focus on completing cognitively demanding tasks.
D that it takes away mental energy needed to complete cognitively demanding tasks.