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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. Wallace described the boy at school who told his secret about the garden to the older boys as looking like a what?
2. What was the color of the robe worn by the somber woman in the garden?
3. Who does Wallace walk around the garden with the first time?
4. How many times did Wallace find the door in the wall while he was a schoolboy?
5. What did Redmond beat Wallace at that made him focus on school again?
Short Essay Questions
1. What conflicting emotions does Wallace feel the first time he sees the door in the wall?
2. What does Wallace tell Redmond the door offered him, but he had rejected it three times in the last year?
3. What is Wallace's attitude about the garden when he is a schoolboy?
4. What happens the second time Wallace comes upon the door in the wall?
5. What is the deep mystery about Wallace that Redmond refers to at the end of the story?
6. How does the door in the wall betray Wallace in the end?
7. What happened the first of the three times that Wallace saw the door in the last year of his life?
8. What happened the last time that Wallace saw the door in the wall?
9. What does Wallace feel as soon as he enters the garden behind the wall for the first time?
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 is the symbolism of the somber woman in the garden, and what role does she play in Wallace's experience in the garden?
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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