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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Seraphina do after reading the email from one of the nannies?
(a) She lies under her covers in bed.
(b) She leaves the house without a word.
(c) She lies on the kitchen floor.
(d) She hides in the bathroom and cries.
2. How do the women who visit Hadley feel about their lot as unlicensed women?
(a) They feel it is an injustice.
(b) They feel it is a burden.
(c) They feel it is a blessing.
(d) They feel the genetic screening is rigged.
3. What does the voice on the other side of Hadley's door say after Hadley does not answer to the knocking?
(a) Open up!
(b) We're friends.
(c) Help me.
(d) Let us in now.
4. Why does Seraphina feel her husband is incapable of inspiring anger in her?
(a) He can do no wrong.
(b) He takes care of all the household chores.
(c) He is not interesting enough.
(d) He treats her like a queen.
5. Who believes that the nannies love their job more than Seraphina loved being a mother?
(a) Seraphina.
(b) The nannies.
(c) Hadley.
(d) Seraphina's husband.
6. What does the email one of the nannies wrote to Seraphina weeks before say?
(a) The emails says she thinks Seraphina is a terrible mother.
(b) The email says she quit.
(c) The email says she wants to adopt Seraphina's children.
(d) The email says she will be going on vacation.
7. What does Seraphina do after she learns the nannies are not there and her son says he is hungry?
(a) Makes a quiche.
(b) Ignores him.
(c) Gives him a protein bar.
(d) Orders pizza.
8. How did Seraphina feel when she became a licensed women?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Blessed.
(c) Unhappy.
(d) Elated.
9. How did Seraphina's father react when she once told him she did not want to be a mother?
(a) He told her she could do what she wanted.
(b) He suggested she move to Iceland.
(c) He slapped her.
(d) He told her he did not blame her.
10. What is the name of the baby Hadley borrows from the library?
(a) Gertrude.
(b) Gabby.
(c) Gemma.
(d) Jenna.
11. Why are Seraphina and her husband able to afford two nannies?
(a) They found inexpensive nannies.
(b) Paul is wealthy.
(c) The government pays for childcare.
(d) Seraphina is wealthy.
12. In what way does Seraphina feel her children are like their father?
(a) They are intelligent.
(b) They are handsome.
(c) They are boring.
(d) They are funny.
13. What is Seraphina's son's name?
(a) Geordie.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Geoff.
(d) George.
14. What does Seraphina's husband always seem to think Seraphina may do at any moment?
(a) Run away.
(b) Erupt in anger.
(c) Tell a joke.
(d) Sing.
15. Where do the women who visit Hadley say they are from?
(a) Aeneas' Angels.
(b) The Society of Venus.
(c) The Cupid Consortium.
(d) The Aphrodite Association.
Short Answer Questions
1. What example does one of the women who visits Hadley use as proof that Hadley's life may not have purpose?
2. What does one of the women who visits Hadley say about the practice of borrowing babies?
3. What does Hadley think about doing with the baby after she takes her from the library?
4. What did Seraphina often fantasize about before becoming licensed?
5. What type of baby does Hadley choose to borrow?
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