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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finkel describes Knight in Chapter 16 as a "man acutely attuned to the ravages of" (106) what?
(a) Shame.
(b) Time.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Neglect.

2. 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) 16.
(d) 42.

3. Who dismantled Knight's campsite, causing him to worry about one living thing within its boundaries?
(a) Campers.
(b) The news media.
(c) The police.
(d) Tourists.

4. Which author wrote, "He that thinks most, will say least" (147)?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Orwell.
(d) Chopra.

5. Knight worried about which type of living thing when he heard that his campsite had been dismantled?
(a) A mushroom.
(b) A gecko.
(c) A dog.
(d) A buck.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, it is revealed that Knight has one sister and how many brothers?

2. According to Finkel, the area known to locals as "the Jarsey" (56) is known for repelling what?

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

4. What single word did the hiker Knight encountered say when he spoke to Knight?

5. In Knight's final letter to Finkel, he took which action for the first and only time?

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