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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. Which author wrote, "He that thinks most, will say least" (147)?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Chopra.
(c) Orwell.
(d) Emerson.

2. Finkel writes, "The United Nations has determined that holding a person in isolation for more than" how many "days is cruel and inhuman punishment" (136)?
(a) 90.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 30.

3. In what season of each year did Knight hear songbirds singing in the mornings and in the evenings?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

4. How old was the vehicle Knight drove into the forest and abandoned when he went to live in the forest by himself?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) Less than a year.

5. 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) 24.
(b) 20.
(c) 31.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finkel cites a variety of studies showing that what element is toxic to humans?

2. Finkel states that the word noise "is derived from" what language "from the word nausea" (112)?

3. What was NOT one of the three disorders a state forensic psychologist named in his diagnosis of Knight?

4. Finkel states that "even in the warm months," Knight rarely took what action "during the daytime" (110)?

5. According to Finkel, what type of hermit was Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Knight view the workaday world in the United States?

2. In what way is the theme of eccentricity treated within Chapter 16?

3. For what reason did Knight keep a whistle on hand during his time in the woods and what was significant about his choice not to use it?

4. Explain the physiological theory Finkel discusses that focuses on the therapeutic effects of silence on humans.

5. How does Finkel inject humor into the text by providing the comments of Stephen M. Edelson regarding Knight's mental state?

6. Define the category of hermits identified by Finkel as protesters and provide one example.

7. Name three steps Knight took each year as winter approached.

8. In what way does Knight view his own actions as unnatural?

9. What terms does Finkel list when he describes the various monikers hermits have taken on within different societies and eras?

10. What was Knight's answer when Finkel asked him whether "some grand insight" (140) had been revealed to him during his time living in the forest?

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