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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term did Knight use to refer to the bundles of magazines he created by wrapping them with electrical tape?
(a) Carpet.
(b) Linoleum.
(c) Tiles.
(d) Bricks.

2. The transgression to which Knight admitted involved a journalism story about what issue?
(a) Fracking.
(b) Rape.
(c) Child labor.
(d) Human trafficking.

3. 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) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. What was NOT one of the names attached to the hermit during his period of scavenging from cabins in the area?
(a) The hermit of North Pond.
(b) North Pond hermit.
(c) Herman the Hermit.
(d) Hermit.

5. Of what type of material was the barrier composed that separated Knight and Finkel during their visits at the jail?
(a) Glass.
(b) Metal bars.
(c) Chicken wire.
(d) Plexiglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different boulders made up the doorway to Knight's campsite?

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

3. In addition to trees and bushes, what other objects were prominent features of the woods in which Knight lived for 27 years?

4. How many nights did Knight spend in the woods of Central Maine before he was caught, according to Finkel?

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

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