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

2. Finkel suggests that most hermits throughout history have seceded from society during what period of their lives?
(a) Middle age.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Old age.
(d) Adolescence.

3. What objects does Finkel use within metaphorical depictions of the Northern Lights?
(a) Drapes.
(b) Waves.
(c) Shutters.
(d) Milkshakes.

4. Which magazine does Knight profess to hate, according to Finkel?
(a) Playboy.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

5. How many months after Knight's encounter with the ice fishermen was he caught stealing from Pine Tree camp?
(a) 2.
(b) 6..
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the child in the photograph vilified by Knight doing in the photograph?

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

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

4. Physiologists believe that humans evolved and gained the use of their senses in which two types of locations?

5. What objects did Knight watch when it was time to celebrate the Fourth of July?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the shelf mushroom discussed in Chapter 16 symbolize?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. To which transgressions did Knight admit and which act of wrongdoing did he adamantly deny?

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

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