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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Knight's first answer when he was asked how long he had been living in the woods?
(a) Eons.
(b) His whole life.
(c) Decades.
(d) Forever.

2. Vance had been following the case of the hermit for how many years before he was apprehended?
(a) 6.
(b) 23.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

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

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) Hermit.
(c) Herman the Hermit.
(d) North Pond hermit.

5. When an interrogation of Knight is depicted in Chapter 4, who takes on the role of interrogator?
(a) Vance.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Bellavance.
(d) Chesley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many songs were composed in honor of the North Pond hermit?

2. 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?

3. The epigraph of The Stranger in the Woods consists of a quote by which famous philosopher?

4. What is the theme of the epigraph Finkel includes before the body of the text begins?

5. What tool did the North Pond locals feel sure would lead to the capture of the North Pond hermit?

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