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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Bernadine unhappy with her job as a controller for a real estate management company?
(a) The hours are long, and it is a tiring job.
(b) Her employees are shallow and fake.
(c) She does not feel adequately trained for the job.
(d) The job denies her creative talents and plunges her into even more stress of working full time and taking care of the kids and the house.

2. Why is Tarik outraged?
(a) He and his friends' First Amendment rights have been violated.
(b) HIs friends have left him to deal with the authorities.
(c) He is expelled for no reason.
(d) His mother does not believe him.

3. Arriving at John's software company, what does Bernadine do?
(a) Bursts in on John and Kathleen in John's office.
(b) Makes an appointment to meet with him.
(c) Set the building on fire.
(d) Barges in on him in a meeting.

4. What does Gloria do before donning a robe and going downstairs?
(a) She calls Philip.
(b) She brushes her teeth.
(c) She swallows a blood pressure pill.
(d) She looks at herself in the mirror.

5. What does Gloria think about after Tarik leaves to be with his friends?
(a) Her hopes that Tarik will behave responsibly and not jeopardize his future by getting a girl pregnant.
(b) Whether or not Tarik will graduate from high school.
(c) Her hopes that Tarik will not get into trouble with the police.
(d) Whether or not Tarik will visit his father.

6. What does Bernadine take to calm her nerves?
(a) A glass of wine.
(b) A phone call from her mother.
(c) A yoga class.
(d) Two Xanax tablets.

7. To where does Robin invite herself, much to Savannah's chagrin?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Los Angeles.

8. What makes Gloria's thoughts turn to her own dismal love life?
(a) Tarik's acknowledgement that he is in a relationship.
(b) Her schedule of things to do.
(c) Her evening with Tarik's father.
(d) The For Sale sign at the house across the street.

9. Why does she decide to see him again?
(a) She feels sorry for him.
(b) He is handsome.
(c) He seems sincere in getting to know her as a real person.
(d) He is wealthy.

10. Where do Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin catch up with one another?
(a) At work.
(b) At Gloria's home.
(c) In the mall's food court.
(d) At lunch in a restaurant.

11. What does Gloria learn about Desiree?
(a) She is late once again.
(b) She has quit.
(c) She has bought a home.
(d) She is sick again.

12. What does Savannah vow to stop doing in the new year?
(a) Staying up late.
(b) Complaining.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Smoking.

13. What does Savannah's brother-in-law do for Savannah?
(a) He call Leonard for her.
(b) He suggests that Savannah call Lionel.
(c) He buys her a new dress to wear to the party.
(d) He suggests Savannah go to the party.

14. What does Robin do when the tires on her car are slit one day?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She replaces the tires.
(c) She kicks Russell out of her home.
(d) She finds the strange woman.

15. About what does Gloria talk to Tarik?
(a) Colleges he is considering attending.
(b) His new girlfriend and his responsibilities as a man.
(c) His father moving in with them.
(d) His slipping grades and the need for him to begin to consider some career options.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Savannah's mother and sister, Sheila, worry about Savannah still being unmarried?

2. How does Bernadine's mother, Geneva, feel about the excuse her daughter gives for leaving her children with her?

3. Why does Philip need to be called?

4. What does Gloria discover about Tarik's whereabouts the night before?

5. When does Gloria become pregnant with Tarik?

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