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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. The 273 words contained within Knight's first letter to Finkel was broken into how many paragraphs?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

3. How many different boulders made up the doorway to Knight's campsite?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. Finkel adamantly claims in Chapter 11 that he found no evidence of what object having ever come within the bounds of Knight's campsite?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A car.
(c) Another human.
(d) A fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. Knight's first letter to Finkel was written on the back of a photograph of which historical figure?

5. Hughes noticed that the hermit's skin was "strangely" (13) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the fact that when the police arrested Knight, he was wearing a pair of Lands' End size 38 jeans?

2. What were Christopher Knight's criteria when he decided whether to steal an item or not during his time living in the woods?

3. What two images does Finkel include prior to Chapter 1 of The Stranger in the Woods and why?

4. How does Finkel use historical allusions to shed further light on the case of the North Pond hermit?

5. Describe the scene of Finkel's first visit to see Knight in jail.

6. Who chose the format for Finkel's visits to Knight and what is the significance of the chosen format?

7. What types of conflicts are presented within the first few chapters of the book?

8. In what way does Knight often mix comedy and tragedy within his spoken and written comments presented by Finkel?

9. On what evidence was Trooper Vance basing her conclusion about Knight when she said, "No way did this guy emerge from the woods" (14)?

10. What were the contents of the final letter Knight sent to Finkel and what were Finkel's feelings about this final letter?

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