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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) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. The transgression to which Knight admitted involved a journalism story about what issue?
(a) Fracking.
(b) Child labor.
(c) Rape.
(d) Human trafficking.

3. What adjective does Finkel use to describe his journalistic past?
(a) Ambitious.
(b) Courageous.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) Flawed.

4. How many letters had Finkel received from Knight by the time he received one final letter from him?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. Knight estimated that he had committed how many burglaries per year during the time he spent living in the woods?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many weeks elapsed between the time Hughes "resolved to end the reign of the hermit" (8) and the day the Border Patrol came to install the surveillance system that ended up catching the hermit?

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

4. Hughes noticed that the hermit's skin was "strangely" (13) what?

5. Knight's first letter to Finkel was written on the back of a photograph of which historical figure?

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