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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 name of the game Wallace often played as a schoolboy?

2. As a busy schoolboy, Wallace thought of the garden as a __________ place.

3. What did Wallace tell Redmond he had as he started his story?

4. What kind of birds were there in the garden?

5. How many boys teased Wallace about the garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of child was Wallace?

2. How does the door in the wall betray Wallace in the end?

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

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

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

6. How does Redmond remember his friend looking on the last night he saw him?

7. What does Wallace think would happen if he entered the green door as he passed it with Gurker and Ralphs?

8. Why does his decision to not enter the garden the second time weigh on Wallace the next day?

9. How do men like Redmond see the world?

10. What happened the first of the three times that Wallace saw the door in the last year of his life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the allegorical implications of the garden and Wallace's obsessive search for the door in the wall?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the overlying theme of the novel. Is The Door in the Wall a cautionary tale? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the young girl and the playmates Wallace finds in the garden. What do they represent that is missing from Wallace's life?

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