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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Baby Party".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts the argument between Joe and John?
(a) A party guest comes back to get her forgotten purse.
(b) Billy and Ede beginning to play together happily.
(c) Mrs. Markey going to fetch Edith's coat.
(d) Edith bursting into tears.

2. What does the narrator say, on page 6, is the "real business of the afternoon"?
(a) Gossiping about their in-laws.
(b) Bragging about their children.
(c) Bragging about their husbands.
(d) Gossiping about women who are not present.

3. What does Edith feel when she joins Ede in her misbehavior?
(a) Solidarity and defiance.
(b) Shame and embarrassment.
(c) Anxiety and exhilaration.
(d) Relief and freedom.

4. In the passage that describes the babies trying to get into the kitchen, how does the narrator's diction create a comic effect?
(a) Through parody.
(b) Through double entendre.
(c) Through contrast.
(d) Through understatement.

5. What are the children doing when Edith and Ede arrive at the party?
(a) Watching a magician.
(b) Eating candy.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Playing a game.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ede begin to cry shortly after her father arrives at the Markeys' house?

2. What word does Mrs. Markey use to describe Ede on page 5 that Edith takes as a potential criticism?

3. When Edith is interrupted, on page 9, as she says that Mrs. Markey is making "a mountain out of--" what idea is she trying to convey?

4. What word does the narrator use on page 3 to describe the moments that John spends on the phone with Ede?

5. How old is John Andros?

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