Evaluate general reading comprehension and eliminate take-home assessment planning with this plot-based quiz covering Katherine Mansfield’s short story titled “The Garden Party.” The assessment may double as a guided reading handout to facilitate active engagement with fiction. An answer key and copy of the public domain narrative are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
- Point of view
- A distinguishing quality of Laura as compared to her family members
- Mrs. Sheridan’s instructions for Laura in the exposition
- The fate of a working class man
- The effect that news of the working class man has on Laura
- The rest of the family’s assumptions about the working class man
- What causes a change of heart in Laura
- Mrs. Sheridan’s instructions for Laura after the party is over
- How the sight of a corpse influences Laura
- The family member who searches for Laura
- The nature of Laura’s conversation with that family member
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