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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Seraphina's husband always seem to think Seraphina may do at any moment?
(a) Run away.
(b) Sing.
(c) Tell a joke.
(d) Erupt in anger.

2. What did Seraphina often fantasize about before becoming licensed?
(a) Being a mother.
(b) Being a wife.
(c) Having a huge wedding.
(d) Being unlicensed and free.

3. 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) Orders pizza.
(d) Gives him a protein bar.

4. Who believes that the nannies love their job more than Seraphina loved being a mother?
(a) Seraphina.
(b) The nannies.
(c) Seraphina's husband.
(d) Hadley.

5. What does the voice on the other side of Hadley's door say after Hadley does not answer to the knocking?
(a) Let us in now.
(b) Help me.
(c) Open up!
(d) We're friends.

6. What do the women who visit Hadley tell her that do?
(a) Adopt borrowed babies.
(b) Give borrowed babies to unlicensed women.
(c) Rescue borrowed babies.
(d) Kidnap borrowed babies.

7. How does Seraphina feel about her children?
(a) She hates them.
(b) She loves them.
(c) She thinks they are beautiful.
(d) She thinks they are geniuses.

8. What does Seraphina suspect about her nannies?
(a) They are brainwashing her children.
(b) They are lovers.
(c) They are going to quit.
(d) They are stealing.

9. 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 treats her like a queen.
(d) He is not interesting enough.

10. How long are Gabriella and Chloe said to be away for?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 6 weeks.

11. What does Hadley think about doing with the baby after she takes her from the library?
(a) She thinks of sending her to Iceland.
(b) She thinks of running away with her.
(c) She thinks of returning her.
(d) She thinks of bringing her to her parents and pretending the baby is hers.

12. What is Seraphina's son's name?
(a) Geoff.
(b) Geordie.
(c) George.
(d) Jordan.

13. What does Seraphina accuse her husband of when he suggests she is angry?
(a) Being a jerk.
(b) Being sexist.
(c) Being racist.
(d) Being stupid.

14. What type of baby does Hadley choose to borrow?
(a) The loudest, grouchiest baby.
(b) The quietest, saddest looking baby.
(c) The fattest, happiest looking baby.
(d) The one which most resembles Hadley.

15. What does one of the women who visits Hadley say about the practice of borrowing babies?
(a) It is brutal.
(b) It is a moral crime.
(c) It is not a crime.
(d) It is unnatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Seraphina that the nannies have left?

2. Where do the women who visit Hadley say they are from?

3. How did Seraphina's father react when she once told him she did not want to be a mother?

4. How do the women who visit Hadley feel about their lot as unlicensed women?

5. What is Seraphina's husband's name?

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