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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Christopher Knight's middle name?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Justin.
(d) Michael.

2. In what way is Hughes affiliated with the location where he ended up apprehending the hermit?
(a) Former student.
(b) Longtime volunteer.
(c) Investor.
(d) Former patient.

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

4. What color were the telephones Finkel and Knight used to communicate during their visits at the jail?
(a) White.
(b) Brown.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

5. What is the theme of the epigraph Finkel includes before the body of the text begins?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Desire.

6. What rank did Terry Hughes hold in his job as a law enforcement officer at the time he apprehended the hermit?
(a) Chief.
(b) Sheriff.
(c) Deputy.
(d) Sergeant.

7. What adjective does Finkel use to describe his journalistic past?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Ambitious.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) Courageous.

8. Of what material was the doormat outside of Knight's A-frame structure composed?
(a) Artificial grass.
(b) Interwoven branches.
(c) Rubber.
(d) Interwoven grasses.

9. When Knight resolved to practice his conversational skills, what topic did he choose to bring up with his fellow inmates?
(a) Cloning.
(b) The supermoon.
(c) Stem-cell therapy.
(d) The God particle.

10. In which two centuries did the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers inhabit caves on either side of a particular river?
(a) The 8th and 9th.
(b) The 13th and 14th.
(c) The 3rd and 4th.
(d) The 15th and 16th.

11. What was NOT one of the names attached to the hermit during his period of scavenging from cabins in the area?
(a) North Pond hermit.
(b) Herman the Hermit.
(c) Hermit.
(d) The hermit of North Pond.

12. During Finkel's first visit to the jail, Knight lamented the fact that people expect him to "spout" what kind of "lines" (54)?
(a) Newsworthy.
(b) Fortune-cookie.
(c) Spurious.
(d) Brilliant.

13. Knight included an apology for committing what transgression in his first letter to Finkel?
(a) For using graph paper.
(b) For his sloppy penmanship.
(c) For affixing an expired stamp to the letter.
(d) For writing microscopically.

14. Knight's first letter to Finkel was written on the back of a photograph of which historical figure?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Onwas.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Carter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nights did Knight spend in the woods of Central Maine before he was caught, according to Finkel?

2. The transgression to which Knight admitted involved a journalism story about what issue?

3. To what journalistic transgression did Finkel admit in an effort to "engender a sense of connection" (40) with Knight?

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

5. What kind of an establishment was the hermit's main target, referred to as "Pine Tree" (4)?

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