The Garden Party

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following themes or motifs best describes Laura’s thoughts immediately before she is called away to the telephone in the beginning of the story?

A) Class Distinction and Class Consciousness

B) Adolescents Playing at Adulthood

C) The Relationship Between Life and Death

D) Mortality and Temporality

2. Which of the following words best describes how Laura feels about parties?

A) Exasperated

B) Overwhelmed

C) Delighted

D) Fearful

3. Which of the following phrases best represents how Mrs. Sheridan “interferes” with the party preparations? (Page 4)

A) Ordering the desserts

B) Managing the workmen

C) Stationing the band

D) Orchestrating the flower delivery

4. At Laura’s insistence to stop the party in honor of the deceased, Jose remarks, “If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life” (Page 7). Which of the following literary terms most accurately characterizes the use of “the band” in this quote?

A) Metaphor

B) Simile

C) Anaphora

D) Allusion

5. Which of the following phrases best describes why Mrs. Sheridan places a hat on Laura’s head?

A) To emphasize the need for luxury

B) To distract her

C) To increase her sense of self worth

D) To show off a new purchase

6. Mansfield signifies the progression of the party with the sentence: “And the perfect afternoon slowly ripened, slowly faded, slowly its petals closed” (Page 9).