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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. What type of music is said to have always been Knight's "undying passion" (103)?
(a) Classic rock.
(b) Country.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Bluegrass.

2. How many tanks of propane did Knight require during a single winter so that he could melt snow for drinking water?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

3. Finkel makes a distinction in Chapter 22 between solitude and what other element?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Angst.
(c) Terror.
(d) Loneliness.

4. How many times did Knight claim to have prayed to a deity during his time living in the wilderness?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

5. Finkel alludes in Chapter 22 to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its revelation that which number was "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" (147)?
(a) 36.
(b) 99.
(c) 42.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many locals disbelieved Knight's story because an ice storm that took place in what year would surely have killed him if he had been out there?

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

3. What make and model was the vehicle Knight abandoned in the forest when he decided to renounce the world and live in solitude?

4. Which magazine does Knight profess to hate, according to Finkel?

5. What title is given as "the only book Knight didn't steal" and "the one he most often saw" (115)?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Knight revere Socrates?

2. What point does Finkel make about the difference between Knight's life timeline and the timelines of other hermits throughout history?

3. Describe the significance of the National Geographic photograph discussed in Chapter 13.

4. In what way does the theme of isolation arise within Chapter 14 of the text?

5. What three diagnoses did the forensic psychologist make after examining Knight?

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

7. In what way does Finkel make use of the sound motif throughout the beginning of Chapter 17?

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

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

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

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