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

2. What does Edith decide is true about John when he has not arrived by six o'clock?
(a) He has little pride in his own child.
(b) He has lost track of time at work.
(c) He has forgotten all about her request.
(d) He shows no interest in the things that make Edith happy.

3. 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 contrast.
(b) Through parody.
(c) Through understatement.
(d) Through double entendre.

4. What is comical about the fight between Joe and John?
(a) Neither man knows how to fight.
(b) The way they keep arguing about the babies while they fight.
(c) Neither man actually wants to fight.
(d) They keep falling because of the ice and mud.

5. What amuses John about the idea of the baby party?
(a) The idea that anyone would want to go to a party for babies.
(b) The idea of the babies causing chaos in someone else's house.
(c) The idea that babies would even understand the idea of a party.
(d) The idea of the mothers all making critical remarks about one another's children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edith thinks that Mrs. Markey is "snippy" (5). What does she think is true about Mrs. Markey?

2. What does Ede do right after Mrs. Markey says that she does not find the situation funny?

3. What does the narrator say, on page 6, is the "real business of the afternoon"?

4. What word best describes the narrator's tone toward modern parenting practices?

5. Why does Mr. Markey go upstairs after the altercation between Billy and Ede?

(see the answer key)

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