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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 deer walking across the leaves on the forest floor?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

2. What was NOT one of the three disorders a state forensic psychologist named in his diagnosis of Knight?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Asperger's disorder.
(c) Depression.
(d) Schizoid personality disorder.

3. According to Finkel, what type of hermit was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
(a) Pilgrim.
(b) Ascetic.
(c) Protester.
(d) Pursuer.

4. How did Knight stay abreast of world events during his 27-year stint living in the woods?
(a) He watched television.
(b) He called strangers.
(c) He listened to the radio.
(d) He eavesdropped on vacationing families.

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) 99.
(b) 42.
(c) 16.
(d) 36.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects does Finkel use within metaphorical depictions of the Northern Lights?

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

3. About how many prisoners in the U.S. are serving sentences in solitary confinement, according to Finkel?

4. In what season of each year did Knight hear wild turkeys gobbling?

5. At what time of year did Knight usually embark upon "a brief hiking season" (110)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What was the main reason why Knight rarely ventured from his campsite during the six months prior to each spring thaw?

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

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

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

10. Provide an explanation of the category of hermits Finkel dubs pursuers and give an example Finkel provides within the text.

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