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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. What is the first name of the oldest member of the Bellavance family discussed in the text?
2. In what season of each year did Knight hear songbirds singing in the mornings and in the evenings?
3. Finkel suggests that most hermits throughout history have seceded from society during what period of their lives?
4. Finkel makes a distinction in Chapter 22 between solitude and what other element?
5. How many tanks of propane did Knight require during a single winter so that he could melt snow for drinking water?
Short Essay Questions
1. What three diagnoses did the forensic psychologist make after examining Knight?
2. In what way is the theme of eccentricity treated within Chapter 16?
3. What real-life example does Finkel use to demonstrate the wide variety of ways in which people respond to solitude?
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. What was the main reason why Knight rarely ventured from his campsite during the six months prior to each spring thaw?
6. To which transgressions did Knight admit and which act of wrongdoing did he adamantly deny?
7. How does Finkel inject humor into the text by providing the comments of Stephen M. Edelson regarding Knight's mental state?
8. How did Knight maintain knowledge of the world around him, though he only came into contact with a total of four humans over 27 years?
9. Explain the physiological theory Finkel discusses that focuses on the therapeutic effects of silence on humans.
10. How does Knight view the workaday world in the United States?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Finkel use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss Finkel's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of The Stranger in the Woods.
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