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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season of each year did Knight hear songbirds singing in the mornings and in the evenings?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

2. In what season of each year did Knight hear deer walking across the leaves on the forest floor?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

3. What object is named in Chapter 1 as being "not allowed, not once," for a hermit who is "truly committed" (3)?
(a) A hug.
(b) A fire.
(c) A shower.
(d) A bootprint.

4. The photograph Knight recalled seeing in his childhood depicted a child watching over what kinds of animals?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Cows.
(c) Goats.
(d) Llamas.

5. When an interrogation of Knight is depicted in Chapter 4, who takes on the role of interrogator?
(a) Vance.
(b) Bellavance.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Chesley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects did Knight watch when it was time to celebrate the Fourth of July?

2. 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?

3. Finkel claims at the end of Chapter 17 that "time amid the silence of nature" (112) makes people what?

4. Finkel describes Knight in Chapter 16 as a "man acutely attuned to the ravages of" (106) what?

5. What term did Knight use to refer to the bundles of magazines he created by wrapping them with electrical tape?

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