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

2. 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 that babies would even understand the idea of a party.
(c) The idea of the mothers all making critical remarks about one another's children.
(d) The idea of the babies causing chaos in someone else's house.

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

4. What causes the two men to stop fighting?
(a) They realize that neither one of them can actually win.
(b) They realize that someone is coming down the sidewalk.
(c) They realize they have no reason to fight.
(d) They grow too tired to keep fighting.

5. What does the narrator mean by "even his feeling about his little girl was qualified" (3)?
(a) John takes pride in making sure that his daughter has everything she needs.
(b) John understands that fatherhood, like most things, is imperfect.
(c) John's earlier battles with illness and poverty make him especially grateful for his child.
(d) John is aware that his daughter is spoiled, but he loves her anyway.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. On page 6, how does the narrator characterize the behavior of the children at the party?

4. To John Andros, what does Ede represent?

5. John enjoys hearing Ede's "non sequiturs" (3). What does this describe in his daughter's speech?

(see the answer key)

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