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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 understatement.
(c) Through double entendre.
(d) Through contrast.

2. What word does Mrs. Markey use to describe Ede on page 5 that Edith takes as a potential criticism?
(a) "Fresh."
(b) "Smart."
(c) "Little."
(d) "Baby."

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

4. What does Edith tell John she thought that he and Joe were going to do when she went back into the house?
(a) Go to the bar to get a drink together.
(b) Fight each other.
(c) Argue a little bit and then come inside.
(d) Shake hands and make peace.

5. When Joe angrily asks John if John thinks he is going to get away with the things he has just said, what does John do?
(a) Turns around to confront Joe again.
(b) Walks out the door.
(c) Punches Joe in the face.
(d) Laughs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To John Andros, what does Ede represent?

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

4. When Edith tells Ede, on page 8, that she is a "bad girl," what does Ede do?

5. As John walks to the Markeys' house, what is he wondering about?

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