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season for graduation. So now what? Whether you've freshly finished earning your degree, or you're heading straight out of high school into workplace, you're going to need to say goodbye to a full refrigerator and free laundry detergent. Yes, folks... it's time to leave your parent's house. Now you must determine whether or not living with a roommate will work for you. The following quiz will help you see if you can handle sharing your living space.1. You come home after a bad day at work to an apartment full of people. The music is blaring, people are loud, and they don't look like they're leaving any time soon. You:
a) take your roommate aside and tell him how angry you are that he threw a party without okaying it through you b) go to your room, shut door and cry. c) pop in one of your CD's and join in d) go to your room, put in some earplugs and crawl into bed for night
2. You need to make a phone call to catch up with your significant other. You make call
a) in your room with your door shut b) in closet with a towel shoved underneath door (what you say is no one's business but your own) c) in living room while your roommate cooks dinner in kitchen and occasionally interjects into conversation d) when your roommate has gone to grocery store
3. There is a trash can in kitchen filled with sour food... but it's your roommate's turn to take out trash.
a) You take out trash for him... but leave dishes dirty on your night to do dishes. b) You ignore trash until your friend comes over, complains of smell and empties it for you c) You take out trash and remind your roommate that next time he forgets to do it, you'll leave it in his bed. d) You become irritated about whole situation and it reminds you of time your roommate didn't hang up his laundry and you had to do it for him, or that other time when he left oven on and you were gone all day... or that time he left that pizza in his room and it molded and stunk up house--or that other time...
4. Your roommate has flu. You
a) Keep him company, but whine about chances of getting sick yourself, and how you can't afford to miss any work b) Call your mom and ask what she recommends for a cure c) rent a couple of funny movies and buy a few boxes of tissues and some cough drops for your roommate d) stay at a friend's house until he gets better.
5. Your roommate puts together a dinner. He invited several of his friends and you. You haven't ever met his friends. You are most likely to
a) sit back and observe - interjecting only when directly asked a question b) enjoy meal but not necessarily company c) open up to his friends and have a good time chit chatting d) "eat and run"
6. You and your roommate get into an argument because he used alarm and didn't reset it, so you were an hour late for work.
a) You get over it after a few days, but still bring it up to pick at your roommate in future arguments "Oh, yeah? Well what about that time you made me late for work?!" b) You invite your brother out for coffee, then gripe about your roommate for an hour c) After a couple of days, you forget what argument was about and move on. d) Buy another alarm and hide it from your roommate
