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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many weeks did it take Hughes to apprehend the hermit once the Border Patrol had installed the state-of-the-art surveillance system?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. The epigraph of The Stranger in the Woods consists of a quote by which famous philosopher?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Aristotle.

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

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

5. About how many feet high was the high point of Knight's A-frame structure in which he lived for 27 years?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. Knight included an apology for committing what transgression in his first letter to Finkel?

2. During which of Finkel's attempts to find Knight's campsite did he fall and hit his head?

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

4. 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?

5. Of what type of material was the barrier composed that separated Knight and Finkel during their visits at the jail?

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