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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what location did Knight keep his book entitled Very Special People?
2. With what unfamiliar genre of music did Knight become very familiar over the course of his years living alone in the woods?
3. In what season of each year did Knight hear wild turkeys gobbling?
4. Knight is said to have suffered from what malady "since his youth" (149)?
5. During what decade did Knight encounter a hiker in the woods and exchange one word with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. To which transgressions did Knight admit and which act of wrongdoing did he adamantly deny?
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 does Finkel make use of the sound motif throughout the beginning of Chapter 17?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. Name three steps Knight took each year as winter approached.
7. Describe the significance of the National Geographic photograph discussed in Chapter 13.
8. How does Knight view the workaday world in the United States?
9. Define the category of hermits identified by Finkel as protesters and provide one example.
10. Define the category of hermits identified as pilgrims and provide one example Finkel gives within the text.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine Finkel’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 2
Examine how Finkel goes about connecting his own personal experiences with the story about Christopher Night contained within The Stranger in the Woods. How does Finkel accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Finkel’s messages regarding the influence that natural selection and other evolutionary processes have on human behavior, as depicted in The Stranger in the Woods.
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