INFERENCECHOICE AIS CORRECT

3. Question type: inferenceChoice ais correct. The reader knows that on this particular day, Babbitt is having a difficult time get-ting out of bed. Does this mean he is lazy? It could, but later we learn that the poker game he went tothe night before may have something to do with it. We are never given any indication that Babbittworks hard at his job, but lines 5–6 say he was “nimble in the calling of selling houses for more thanpeople could afford to pay.” In other words, that he was good at his job, not that he worked hard at it.