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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 9 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the baby Hadley borrows from the library?

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

4. What do the women who visit Hadley tell her that do?

5. What does the email one of the nannies wrote to Seraphina weeks before say?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Hadley's experience at the library when she looks for a baby to borrow.

2. How does Paul behave around Seraphina?

3. How does Seraphina discover her nannies are gone and how does she react?

4. Why do the women who come to Hadley's apartment say they think she is one of them?

5. How does borrowing a baby make Hadley feel about her lot in life?

6. 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?

7. How does Seraphina feel about her life as a mother?

8. Why does Hadley consider running away with Gemma when she takes her from the library?

9. Who comes to Hadley's apartment after she arrives with Gemma and where are they from?

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