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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place is buzzing about Wallace's death?
(a) The club.
(b) The House.
(c) The bar.
(d) The Senate.

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

3. Redmond remembers Wallace's _______ face the last night he saw him.
(a) Handsome.
(b) Angry.
(c) Distinguished.
(d) Pallid.

4. Seeing the door in the wall for the third time gave Wallace a sense of ______________ things.
(a) Sad.
(b) Lovely.
(c) Lost.
(d) Attainable.

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

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

7. What does Wallace grieve for most in his life?
(a) The past.
(b) His father.
(c) The garden.
(d) His mother.

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

9. Redmond is convinced that Wallace had a what?
(a) Abnormal gift.
(b) Brain aneurysm.
(c) Brain tumor.
(d) Profound experience.

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

11. Which of the following occasions did Wallace NOT see the door in the wall?
(a) On the way to his wedding.
(b) On the way to his father's deathbed.
(c) On the way to a girl's house.
(d) On the way to a scholarship interview.

12. How old was Wallace when he saw the door in the wall for the third time?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

13. In the end, Wallace walked out of _________ into darkness.
(a) Life.
(b) Light.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Security.

14. What does Wallace tell Redmond is destroying him?
(a) Love.
(b) Loss.
(c) Desire.
(d) Work.

15. What does Wallace tell Redmond success has become to him?
(a) Sustaining.
(b) Empty.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Valid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What restaurant is Wallace in when he has an important conversation about his career?

2. Wallace felt that his career merited what?

3. Wallace's body was found in __________.

4. Redmond says some will read his story and think him to be what?

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

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