View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the schoolmate who made a joke about the girl in green from the garden?

2. What feature of the girl in the garden does Wallace recall most vividly?

3. What was the nickname of the boy at school who Wallace told about the garden?

4. How long after having dinner with Redmond did Wallace die?

5. How many boys teased Wallace about the garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a woman that Wallace knew once tell Redmond about him?

2. Why does Redmond think Wallace went to the place where he died?

3. Why does his decision to not enter the garden the second time weigh on Wallace the next day?

4. What is the deep mystery about Wallace that Redmond refers to at the end of the story?

5. How does Wallace find his way home after his first trip to the garden?

6. What does Wallace recall seeing in the shop windows as he struggled to ignore his desire to enter the door in the wall the first time?

7. How is Wallace successful in his life?

8. What was the strange gift that Redmond thought Wallace possessed?

9. What changes for Wallace at school after he tries to find the door with the older boys?

10. What is Redmond's opinion of the story after he considers it in the light of morning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the real people in Wallace's life with the people he saw in the garden. In particular, examine Wallace's relationship with his father, girlfriends, and co-workers. Who are the counterparts to these relationships in the garden?

Essay Topic 2

What are Redmond's motives for telling Wallace's incredible story concerning the door in the wall? Do these motives make him a reliable or unreliable narrator? Does Redmond tell the story to honor his friend or to mock him?

Essay Topic 3

How did Wallace first come across the door in the wall? Discuss in detail the circumstances of the subsequent times he found the door and why he never entered the garden again.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 810 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample