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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 9 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the baby Hadley borrows from the library?
2. What are the names of Seraphina's nannies?
3. What type of baby does Hadley choose to borrow?
4. Who tells Seraphina that the nannies have left?
5. How did Seraphina's father react when she once told him she did not want to be a mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Hadley's experience at the library when she looks for a baby to borrow.
2. What does one of the woman who comes to Hadley's apartment say to Hadley when she says that borrowing a baby is not a crime?
3. How does Paul behave around Seraphina?
4. How does borrowing a baby make Hadley feel about her lot in life?
5. How does Seraphina discover her nannies are gone and how does she react?
6. Who comes to Hadley's apartment after she arrives with Gemma and where are they from?
7. Why does Hadley consider running away with Gemma when she takes her from the library?
8. Why do the women who come to Hadley's apartment say they think she is one of them?
9. How does Seraphina feel about her life as a mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Roxane Gay's commentary on gender in "Graceful Burdens." How is gender important to the story? How does it effect the narrative? Use textual evidence to explain your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the significance the lending library has on the story "Graceful Burdens." Why do you think the author, Roxane Gay, chose this to support the story's themes? What other ways could the themes of gender and control be portrayed in this type of story?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay examining the babies and motherhood as a symbol in "Graceful Burdens." In what scenes does this seem most significant? What is the context? How do these work to develop the narrative?
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