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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Knight classified within his father's obituary, according to Finkel?
(a) As an angel.
(b) As an enigma.
(c) As a survivor.
(d) As a beneficiary.

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

3. It is revealed in Chapter 13 that Knight was how old when he drove his vehicle until it ran out of gas and then walked off into the woods, where he proceeded to live for the next 27 years?
(a) 20.
(b) 31.
(c) 24.
(d) 16.

4. Knight remarks that while harvest time is related to ancient instincts, it is not generally affiliated with what?
(a) The modern world.
(b) Money.
(c) Crime.
(d) Joy.

5. When Knight claimed never to have lit a fire during all his years living in the woods, what reason did he give?
(a) He used space heaters instead.
(b) He never learned how to start a fire.
(c) The smoke might have given his campsite away.
(d) He wanted to test his true limits.

Short Answer Questions

1. The child in the photograph angrily discussed by Knight had lost an animal due to a collision with what type of vehicle?

2. What adjective does Finkel use to describe his journalistic past?

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

4. What color were the telephones Finkel and Knight used to communicate during their visits at the jail?

5. In what location did Knight keep his book entitled Very Special People?

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