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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season of each year did Knight hear songbirds singing in the mornings and in the evenings?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

2. How many weeks elapsed between the time Hughes "resolved to end the reign of the hermit" (8) and the day the Border Patrol came to install the surveillance system that ended up catching the hermit?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

3. The child in the photograph angrily discussed by Knight had lost an animal due to a collision with what type of vehicle?
(a) A car.
(b) A go-kart.
(c) A tractor.
(d) A bicycle.

4. How old was Knight at the time he was apprehended?
(a) 24.
(b) 58.
(c) 47.
(d) 36.

5. What was the only thing found inside the hermit's wallet when he was apprehended at Pine Tree?
(a) Cash.
(b) His driver's license.
(c) A photo of a little boy.
(d) His social security card.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of an establishment was the hermit's main target, referred to as "Pine Tree" (4)?

2. How many letters had Finkel received from Knight by the time he received one final letter from him?

3. Knight estimated that he had committed how many burglaries per year during the time he spent living in the woods?

4. When an interrogation of Knight is depicted in Chapter 4, who takes on the role of interrogator?

5. Finkel describes Knight in Chapter 16 as a "man acutely attuned to the ravages of" (106) what?

(see the answer key)

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