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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many feet high was the high point of Knight's A-frame structure in which he lived for 27 years?
(a) 18.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

2. During which of Finkel's attempts to find Knight's campsite did he fall and hit his head?
(a) His fifth.
(b) His tenth.
(c) His third.
(d) His first.

3. In what year was Knight born?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1965.

4. The epigraph of The Stranger in the Woods consists of a quote by which famous philosopher?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Socrates.

5. 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) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which historical figure who died in 479 B.C. "seems to have spoken in praise of hermits" (37)?

3. Who chose the no-contact format for the jail visits between Finkel and Knight?

4. Finkel states that in Central Maine, "summer is rife with" (56) all but which of the following elements?

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

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