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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hughes noticed that the hermit's skin was "strangely" (13) what?
(a) Shiny.
(b) Scaly.
(c) Tan.
(d) Pale.

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

4. The Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers lived in caves on either side of which river?
(a) The Mississippi.
(b) The Yangtze.
(c) The Nile.
(d) The Mesopotamia.

5. Who chose the no-contact format for the jail visits between Finkel and Knight?
(a) Knight.
(b) Finkel.
(c) The warden.
(d) The District Attorney.

6. Knight estimated that he had committed how many burglaries per year during the time he spent living in the woods?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

7. The transgression to which Knight admitted involved a journalism story about what issue?
(a) Human trafficking.
(b) Fracking.
(c) Rape.
(d) Child labor.

8. How many weeks did it take Hughes to apprehend the hermit once the Border Patrol had installed the state-of-the-art surveillance system?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

9. In addition to trees and bushes, what other objects were prominent features of the woods in which Knight lived for 27 years?
(a) Dunes.
(b) Caves.
(c) Boulders.
(d) Streams.

10. Who sent word to the Maine State Police and asked them to alert Trooper Diane Vance about the scene at Pine Tree?
(a) Terry Hughes.
(b) Michael Finkel.
(c) Terry Hughes's unnamed wife.
(d) Harvey Chesley.

11. Chapter 11 begins with which two words when Finkel finally finds the location of Knight's campsite?
(a) My word.
(b) Holy cow.
(c) My goodness.
(d) No way.

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

13. How old was Hughes at the time he apprehended the hermit?
(a) 34.
(b) 61.
(c) 52.
(d) 44.

14. Knight told his interrogators that he had spent how many years living in the woods?
(a) 14.
(b) 27.
(c) 34.
(d) 11.

15. In what state do the events depicted in the text The Stranger in the Woods take place?
(a) New York.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Maine.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many feet high was the high point of Knight's A-frame structure in which he lived for 27 years?

2. How many songs were composed in honor of the North Pond hermit?

3. The second image included prior to Chapter 1 of the text is an annotated illustration with what title?

4. In which two centuries did the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers inhabit caves on either side of a particular river?

5. Finkel writes in Chapter 8 that "capturing Knight was the human equivalent of netting a" (37) what?

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