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 did Wallace feel while the boys were teasing him about the garden?

2. Wallace said that after the older boys teased him at school he would cry at night, but by day he was ______________.

3. How much earlier would Wallace leave his house on the mornings he played his favorite game?

4. The schoolmates made Wallace sit through ____________ for lying.

5. What is growing along the white wall the first time Wallace sees it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Redmond think people may call him if he reveals what he really thinks about Wallace and the door in the wall?

2. Why did Wallace cry himself to sleep many nights as a schoolboy?

3. What role has the door in the wall played in Wallace's career?

4. What is Wallace's attitude about the garden when he is a schoolboy?

5. How does the door in the wall betray Wallace in the end?

6. What is the secret that Wallace reveals to Redmond during the dinner they have together?

7. 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?

8. How does Redmond remember his friend looking on the last night he saw him?

9. What kind of child was Wallace?

10. What did Wallace think happened as a result of telling the other boy about the garden?

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

What does Redmond mean when he says that Wallace is "the possessor of an inestimable privilege or the victim of a fantastic dream"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 743 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample