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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Seraphina's daughter's name?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Alexis.
(c) Ella.
(d) Elise.

2. 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.

3. Where do the women who visit Hadley say they are from?
(a) The Society of Venus.
(b) The Aphrodite Association.
(c) The Cupid Consortium.
(d) Aeneas' Angels.

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

5. Why are Seraphina and her husband able to afford two nannies?
(a) Seraphina is wealthy.
(b) They found inexpensive nannies.
(c) The government pays for childcare.
(d) Paul is wealthy.

6. What does Seraphina do after reading the email from one of the nannies?
(a) She hides in the bathroom and cries.
(b) She leaves the house without a word.
(c) She lies on the kitchen floor.
(d) She lies under her covers in bed.

7. 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.

8. What is Seraphina's husband's name?
(a) Peter.
(b) Frank.
(c) Paul.
(d) Phil.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. Why does Seraphina feel her husband is incapable of inspiring anger in her?
(a) He treats her like a queen.
(b) He takes care of all the household chores.
(c) He is not interesting enough.
(d) He can do no wrong.

14. How did Seraphina feel when she became a licensed women?
(a) Elated.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Blessed.
(d) Unhappy.

15. What is the name of the baby Hadley borrows from the library?
(a) Gabby.
(b) Gertrude.
(c) Jenna.
(d) Gemma.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What example does one of the women who visits Hadley use as proof that Hadley's life may not have purpose?

3. In what way does Seraphina feel her children are like their father?

4. What does the voice on the other side of Hadley's door say after Hadley does not answer to the knocking?

5. What are the names of Seraphina's nannies?

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