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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 Mrs. Markey say should be the consequence of Ede's behavior?
(a) She should be spanked.
(b) She should have to give Billy one of her toys.
(c) She should not be allowed to go to the next party.
(d) She should have to apologize to Billy.

2. What terms does John use on page 4 as he wonders about Ede's party dress?
(a) "Bizarre and expensive."
(b) "Monstrous and vain."
(c) "Radical and mature."
(d) "Incomprehensible and frilly."

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) Epizeuxis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Antistrophe.

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

5. What word does the narrator use on page 3 to describe the moments that John spends on the phone with Ede?
(a) Amusing.
(b) Wondrous.
(c) Vivid.
(d) Bewildering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the argument between Joe and John?

2. What does the most difficult part of parenting seem to be for John?

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

4. What is Billy doing as the adults around him begin to argue loudly?

5. What does Edith feel when she joins Ede in her misbehavior?

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