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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of music is said to have always been Knight's "undying passion" (103)?
(a) Classic rock.
(b) Bluegrass.
(c) Country.
(d) Jazz.

2. Of what material was the doormat outside of Knight's A-frame structure composed?
(a) Rubber.
(b) Artificial grass.
(c) Interwoven grasses.
(d) Interwoven branches.

3. When Knight claimed never to have lit a fire during all his years living in the woods, what reason did he give?
(a) He wanted to test his true limits.
(b) He used space heaters instead.
(c) The smoke might have given his campsite away.
(d) He never learned how to start a fire.

4. Who sent word to the Maine State Police and asked them to alert Trooper Diane Vance about the scene at Pine Tree?
(a) Terry Hughes's unnamed wife.
(b) Michael Finkel.
(c) Harvey Chesley.
(d) Terry Hughes.

5. Finkel reports that he and his wife had had how many "babies in three years" (32) at the time of his investigation into Knight's story?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is revealed in Chapter 13 that Knight was how old when he drove his vehicle until it ran out of gas and then walked off into the woods, where he proceeded to live for the next 27 years?

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

3. The second image included prior to Chapter 1 of the text is an annotated illustration with what title?

4. How old was the vehicle Knight drove into the forest and abandoned when he went to live in the forest by himself?

5. To what journalistic transgression did Finkel admit in an effort to "engender a sense of connection" (40) with Knight?

(see the answer key)

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