1.which excerpt from o’connor’s “good country people” contains an example of irony? a. joy was her daughter, a blonde girl who had an artificial leg. mrs. hopewell thought of her as a child though she was thirty-two years old and highly educated. b.[w]hen she and the girl happened to be out of the house together, she would say something and add the name hulga to the end of it, and the big spectacled joy-hulga would scowl and redden as if her privacy had been intruded upon. she considered the name her personal affair. c. nothing is perfect. this was one of mrs. hopewell’s favorite sayings. another was: that is life! and still another, the most important, was: well, other people have their opinions too. d. mrs. hopewell liked to tell people . . how she had happened to hire the freemans in the first place and how they were a godsend to her and how she had had them four years. dont guess./ edgenuity 2.which excerpt from o’connor’s “good country people” best reveals the irony of joy’s name? a. mrs. hopewell thought of her as a child though she was thirty-two years old and highly educated. joy would get up while her mother was eating, and before long, mrs. freeman would arrive at the back door. b. another was: that is life! and still another, the most important, was: well, other people have their opinions too. she would make these statements, usually at the table, in a tone of gentle insistence as if no one held them but her. c.[a]nd when joy had to be impressed for these services, her remarks were usually so ugly and her face so glum that mrs. hopewell would say, “if you can’t come pleasantly, i don’t want you at all,” to which the girl, standing square and rigid-shouldered with her neck thrust slightly forward would reply. . d. she saw it as the name of her highest creative act. one of her major triumphs was that her mother had not been able to turn her dust into joy, but the greater one was that she had been able to turn it herself into hulga.