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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what material was the doormat outside of Knight's A-frame structure composed?
(a) Interwoven branches.
(b) Rubber.
(c) Artificial grass.
(d) Interwoven grasses.

2. How old was Hughes at the time he apprehended the hermit?
(a) 52.
(b) 44.
(c) 34.
(d) 61.

3. Finkel reports that he and his wife had had how many "babies in three years" (32) at the time of his investigation into Knight's story?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

4. How many weeks did it take Hughes to apprehend the hermit once the Border Patrol had installed the state-of-the-art surveillance system?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. What is the theme of the epigraph Finkel includes before the body of the text begins?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Desire.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Solitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Knight at the time he was apprehended?

2. Knight included an apology for committing what transgression in his first letter to Finkel?

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?

4. What term did Knight use to refer to the bundles of magazines he created by wrapping them with electrical tape?

5. What incriminating item of clothing was Knight wearing when he was captured?

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