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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of object(s) did Knight use to run propane from the propane tank to his camp stove?
(a) A deconstructed hula-hoop.
(b) A homemade set of bellows.
(c) A garden hose.
(d) A series of straws.

2. Physiologists believe that humans evolved and gained the use of their senses in which two types of locations?
(a) Deserts and woods.
(b) Marshes and grasslands.
(c) Mountainous areas and grasslands.
(d) Woods and grasslands.

3. What is the title of the map Finkel includes prior to Chapter 1 of The Stranger in the Woods?
(a) The Estuaries.
(b) The Ponds.
(c) The Bays.
(d) The Lakes.

4. The second image included prior to Chapter 1 of the text is an annotated illustration with what title?
(a) The camp.
(b) The hut.
(c) The cave.
(d) The lean-to.

5. 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) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Finkel asked Knight for the "grand insight" that may have been "revealed to him in the wild," (147) what element does Knight say is crucial?

2. What was NOT one of the three disorders a state forensic psychologist named in his diagnosis of Knight?

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

4. Knight was charged with which two crimes shortly after his arrest?

5. When Knight claimed never to have lit a fire during all his years living in the woods, what reason did he give?

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