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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Robin know Michael?
(a) He is an old family friend.
(b) He works in the same insurance company she does.
(c) He works with Russell.
(d) He is a friend of a friend.

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

3. Robin comes to the realization that Michael is a nice, considerate man, but why does she want to end the relationship?
(a) He cannot satisfy her sexually.
(b) He is not very organized.
(c) He wants to move away from Phoenix.
(d) He does not earn enough money.

4. What does John urge Bernadine to accept?
(a) That she will not get much of his money.
(b) That their divorce is inevitable.
(c) His relationship with Kathleen.
(d) His offer to settle out of court with a check for three hundred thousand dollars.

5. How does John's behavior fit perfectly with his actions of the past several years?
(a) He has been a womanizer who believes women are subordinate to men.
(b) He has always been a kind man who treated his wife like a queen.
(c) He has been wanting a new career but did not want to disrupt his family life.
(d) He attempts to achieve the life enjoyed by successful white men like Donald Trump.

6. What does Bernadine do with John's clothes?
(a) Dumps them into John's BMW.
(b) Throws them in the trash.
(c) Folds them and puts them in a suitcase.
(d) Calls John to come pick them up.

7. What does Bernadine do after locking herself in her bedroom?
(a) She examines her face and naked body in a mirror and curses her new single status.
(b) She calls her best friend.
(c) She calls her mother.
(d) She writes in her journal.

8. When does Gloria become pregnant with Tarik?
(a) She is a senior in college during a frat party.
(b) Five years ago after an office party.
(c) She is a senior in high school after prom.
(d) After she marries Tariq's father.

9. How does Bernadine feel about the mortgage payment not being made by John?
(a) Confused.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Livid.
(d) Sad.

10. Why is Robin upset about seeing Michael?
(a) She had not realized she would miss him so much.
(b) She does not want to see him, and is upset that he now is at the same bar she is.
(c) She now understands that she loves him.
(d) She is jealous that he has found another woman so soon after breaking up with Robin.

11. Why will Philip not be at work for a few days?
(a) He has the flu.
(b) He is opening his own salon.
(c) He has personal issues with which to deal.
(d) He is going on vacation.

12. Why is Bernadine unhappy with her job as a controller for a real estate management company?
(a) She does not feel adequately trained for the job.
(b) 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.
(c) The hours are long, and it is a tiring job.
(d) Her employees are shallow and fake.

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

14. When Bernadine returns home, what does she realize?
(a) She has left the stove on.
(b) Her children will not be upset about the divorce.
(c) She no longer has a husband to deal with.
(d) Savannah has arrived and the two old friends sit on the patio and talk until dawn.

15. Who is Kenneth Dawkins?
(a) Savanah's ex-fiance, who is now living in Boston.
(b) A man whom Savannah had dated while living in Boston a few years ago.
(c) Savannah's best friend from high school.
(d) Savanna's attractive realtor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arriving at John's software company, what does Bernadine do?

2. Why is Tarik outraged?

3. What does Robin feel about Russell?

4. What does John announce that jolts Bernadine back to reality?

5. What does Savannah resent about the executive world?

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