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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the opening scene, the ladies begin to do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Sing and dance.
(c) Argue.
(d) Reminisce about their past.

2. Audrey wonders why her husband thinks she should do what?
(a) Gain weight.
(b) Dress differently.
(c) Lose weight.
(d) Get a job.

3. Who is wearing political buttons?
(a) Faith.
(b) Slip.
(c) Merit.
(d) Kari.

4. Faith has just moved from where?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Texas.

5. Merit's father dies of what the day after calling Merit?
(a) A blood clot.
(b) Car accident injuries.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A stroke.

6. What is causing tension between Audrey and her husband?
(a) They are worried about the health of their unborn child.
(b) Audrey being out of work.
(c) Audrey's husband being out of work.
(d) Lack of intimacy.

7. The children are playing with what?
(a) Sprinklers.
(b) A baseball.
(c) A sand box.
(d) A toy airplane.

8. The women are in whose house when they decide to start a book club?
(a) Slip's.
(b) Faith's.
(c) Kari's.
(d) Audrey's.

9. Merit met her husband where?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Miami.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

10. Kari's husband died in his sleep at what age?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Forty.

11. Merit's husband is a what?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Professor.
(d) Artist.

12. The novel follows the friends over the course of how many years?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Sixty.

13. When Audrey hosts the book club, the girls plan to discuss a book about what?
(a) Sex.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Adoption.
(d) Politics.

14. Which of the following is not one of the things the friends are doing, as the novel opens?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Driving.
(d) Daydreaming.

15. Faith tried to do what, but was overruled by Patsy?
(a) Invite everyone out to eat.
(b) Babysit Julia.
(c) Invite everyone to a movie.
(d) Cancel the book club meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shortly before what holiday Slip learns that her brother has enlisted in the military?

2. What is the book the women are discussing?

3. Audrey's husband has what working relationship with Audrey's father?

4. One like Faith has told was about a time when Faith's father helped care for whom?

5. Kari wants to tell her brother Julia is his what, but does not want to break the vow she made to Mary Jo.

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