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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Wallace describe himself as a child?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Light-hearted.
(c) Sad.
(d) Precocious.

2. How would Redmond normally describe his friend?
(a) Reticent.
(b) Kind.
(c) Gregarious.
(d) Practical.

3. What is growing along the white wall the first time Wallace sees it?
(a) Lilac.
(b) Whisteria.
(c) Virginia creeper.
(d) Ivy.

4. What did the garden feel like to Wallace from the first moment?
(a) Homecoming.
(b) Party.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Peaceful.

5. What was on the pages of the book the woman in the garden showed Wallace?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Words.
(d) Realities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What special thing did Wallace see in the book in the garden?

3. What color was the door in the wall?

4. What was the real name of the boy at school who Wallace told about the garden?

5. Redmond believed Wallace at the time he told his story because of the ____________ in his telling.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the difference for Wallace when he sees the door the second time?

3. How is Wallace successful in his life?

4. What makes Redmond believe Wallace's story when he first hears it?

5. What does Wallace think is strange about coming across the door as he was on his way to a girl's house one day?

6. What does Wallace tell Redmond the door offered him, but he had rejected it three times in the last year?

7. How do men like Redmond see the world?

8. During dinner, how does Wallace describe to Redmond that he has come to feel about the door?

9. What does Wallace confess to Redmond that his life has become?

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

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