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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which one of the following people did NOT question young Wallace about his story about the garden?
2. What did Wallace do to try to get the boys to stop teasing him?
3. What did one of the older schoolboys physically do to Wallace?
4. How did Wallace describe himself as a child?
5. Who does Wallace see musing among the laurels in the garden?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was Redmond's and Wallace's relationship like during their school days?
3. What is one of the best parts of being in the garden for a lonely little boy like Wallace?
4. What does Redmond think the green door may have really been?
5. In the end, what does Redmond believe about the existence of the door in the wall?
6. What does Wallace do to try to silence the boys who are teasing him?
7. When did Redmond first hear about the door in the wall?
8. How does Redmond discover that Wallace has died?
9. What is the deep mystery about Wallace that Redmond refers to at the end of the story?
10. What was the strange gift that Redmond thought Wallace possessed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
How does The Door in the Wall fit into the science fiction genre? What elements of the story in particular incorporate the science fiction genre?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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