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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) Shame and embarrassment.
(c) Solidarity and defiance.
(d) Anxiety and exhilaration.

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

3. What technique is used on page 3 when John's life is described as "a series of struggles up a series of rugged hills"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Antistrophe.

4. On page 6, how does the narrator characterize the behavior of the children at the party?
(a) They behave "remarkably well."
(b) They behave "tolerably, given the circumstances."
(c) They behave "like little statesmen."
(d) They behave "like little animals."

5. After they leave the Markeys' house, why does John watch to make sure that Edith has reached their own walkway?
(a) He wants her safely out of the way before he and Joe fight.
(b) He wants his daughter to get out of the cold December air.
(c) He does not want her to overhear what he is about to say to Joe.
(d) He is concerned that she will get into another argument with Mrs. Markey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What interrupts the argument between Joe and John?

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

4. Why are all of the children at the party so carefully dressed?

5. What begins to happen after the children have their cake and ice cream?

(see the answer key)

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