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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 7 - 14 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long are babies available for borrowing before they are sent elsewhere?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 year.

2. What is the root of much of the pain Hadley feels in regards to her inability to procreate?
(a) She had always dreamed of being a mother.
(b) She is the only one in her family who failed genetic screening.
(c) She knows the people think that her life has no meaning.
(d) She feels her life has no meaning.

3. What is another of the four places babies may be sent to when they age out of the lending program?
(a) They are euthanized.
(b) They are sent to pharmaceutical companies.
(c) They are given away to anyone who will take them.
(d) They are sent to sweatshops.

4. What is another of the four places babies may be sent to when they age out of the lending program?
(a) They are sold to wealthy families as servants.
(b) The Government will take them.
(c) They are sent to Iceland.
(d) They are sent to work on farms.

5. What does the email one of the nannies wrote to Seraphina weeks before say?
(a) The email says she will be going on vacation.
(b) The emails says she thinks Seraphina is a terrible mother.
(c) The email says she wants to adopt Seraphina's children.
(d) The email says she quit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Seraphina and her husband able to afford two nannies?

2. What does Hadley think about doing with the baby after she takes her from the library?

3. How old are women when they need to submit to genetic screening in "Graceful Burdens"?

4. What is Seraphina's son's name?

5. What does a woman deemed suitable for procreation need to do when she wants to have a baby?

(see the answer key)

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