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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many trips in total did Finkel make from Montana to Maine during the period of Knight's incarceration?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

2. In Chapter 12, it is revealed that Knight has one sister and how many brothers?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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. According to Finkel, the area known to locals as "the Jarsey" (56) is known for repelling what?
(a) Trespassers.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Invasive species.
(d) Eccentrics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Finkel describes Knight in Chapter 16 as a "man acutely attuned to the ravages of" (106) what?

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

3. 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?

4. What gesture does Knight recall making at the end of his encounter with the ice fishermen months before his arrest?

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

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