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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. What was the color of the robe worn by the somber woman in the garden?

2. What could Wallace never recall about his time in the garden?

3. What kind of flowers line the steps that suddenly appear in the garden?

4. What word does Wallace use to explain the shops he saw near the door in the wall?

5. Where did Wallace sit in the garden to look at the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of child was Wallace?

2. In the end, what does Redmond believe about the existence of the door in the wall?

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

4. What is Wallace's first thought when he sees the door in the wall for the second time?

5. As a young man, what door did Wallace think was more important than the door in the wall?

6. Who did Wallace tell about the garden, and why?

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

8. Where is Wallace's body found?

9. What happens when the woman in the purple robe shows Wallace the book she is carrying?

10. Why does Wallace think he made the right decision to NOT stop and enter the door the third time he sees it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss both the external and internal conflicts presented in The Door in the Wall.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss each of the following themes: the price of missed opportunities; the value of success; and the detriments of living with regret.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Wallace's relationships with the real people in his life. Compare those relationships with how he felt about the people in the garden.

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