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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wallace felt that his career merited what?
(a) Determination.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Happiness.

2. Wallace walked all the way from what location on the night of his death?
(a) The bar.
(b) The Senate.
(c) His house.
(d) The House.

3. What is the name of the newspaper announcing Wallace's death?
(a) London Times.
(b) New York Times.
(c) Westminster Gazette.
(d) West Kensington Gazette.

4. What look does Redmond remember in Wallace's eyes the night he told his story?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Somber.
(c) Suicidal.
(d) Sad.

5. Where did Wallace go on scholarship?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Sorbonne.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Harvard.

6. For how long has Wallace been unable to focus on his work because of his preoccupation with seeing the door?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 10 weeks.

7. What is the name of Wallace's superior that he wished to have a private word with?
(a) Gurker.
(b) Ralphs.
(c) Hopkins.
(d) Hotchkiss.

8. What was Wallace working on the night he saw the door when he was with a co-worker?
(a) The Tennison Account.
(b) The Tenant's Redemption Bill.
(c) The Tax Code Revision.
(d) The Tenant's Law.

9. The dead body of Wallace is found near where?
(a) Paddington Square.
(b) Thames River.
(c) Westminster Abbey.
(d) East Kensington Station.

10. Where was Wallace going the day he saw the door for the fourth time?
(a) Important dinner.
(b) Job interview.
(c) Seeing a girl.
(d) Scholarship interview.

11. What did Wallace refer to as the "common bulldog of adolescence"?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A cap.
(c) An attitude.
(d) A pipe.

12. Sometimes Redmond thought Wallace was a victim of what?
(a) Crime.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Delusions.
(d) Coincidence.

13. Wallace compared looking for the door in the wall to what?
(a) Being a lost child in the park.
(b) Finding a needle in a haystack.
(c) Being drunk.
(d) Deciphering Stonehenge.

14. What is the hoarding on the high road that Redmond refers to in Part 4?
(a) A frenzied crowd.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A sadness.
(d) A fence.

15. What is the name of the colleague that Wallace was walking with on his most recent time of seeing the wall?
(a) Ralphs.
(b) Hamelwright.
(c) Hopkins.
(d) Gurker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Wallace going when he saw the door in the wall for the third time?

2. Who did Wallace wish he had stopped for just a moment and waved to in the garden?

3. As Wallace tells Redmond about seeing the door for the third time, what does he do?

4. How many times does Wallace see the door in the last year of his life?

5. Redmond believes the door in the wall offered Wallace what?

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