Hatchet Ch. 13-16

How do you know a good deal of time has passed between the end of Chapter 12 when the plane flies away and the beginning of Chapter 13? 

•  At the end of Chapter 12 Brian was going to make a bow and arrow to catch fish and at the beginning of Chapter 13 Brian is tired of eating fish.
• Brian is placing pebbles in a hollowed out rock; one for each day he has been in the wilderness, and the rock will no longer hold any more pebbles.
• The author begins Chapter 13 with a description of the changes in weather over the last two months
• Brian is keeping track of the days by making notches with his hatchet on a piece of wood, and he states that many notches have been made.

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While he was hunting Brian sensed an animal nearby. It was a ____________.

• Wolf
• Squirrel 
• Coyote 
• Fox

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When Brian first began to use the bow and arrows he could not catch fish because _______________.

• the points were not sharp enough to pierce the skin of the fish
• the water bent the light making the fish look like they were in a different place than where they really were
• the fish stayed in the deep water and Brian could not get close enough to catch them
• Brian was not fast enough to hit the fish and they swam away

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A skunk came into Brian's shelter looking for ___________.

• fish
• warmth
• the turtle eggs
• shelter from the rain

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Brian decided to store the food he caught _______________.

• tied in his jacket and hung up in the tall trees
•  in a bowl-shaped rock
• buried in the sand under his sleeping mat
• on the ledge above his shelter

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How does Brian store his fish?

• Brian tied the fish with one of his shoelaces and hung them in a tree.
•  Brian built a holding pen out of rocks at the edge of the lake.
• Brian wove a basket from small branches and placed it at the edge of the lake.
• Brian put the fish on his storage shelf.

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Brian discovered the secret to catching a foolbird was to ____________.

• listen for the chirping sound it made
• look for softness of feathers
• look for the correct brown color of the bird
•  look for the pear-shaped body

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While washing the foolbird in the lake, Brian was attacked by a ____________.

•  fox
• falcon
• wolf
• moose

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The roaring sound of ______________ awakened Brian.

•  a tornado
• a train
• a plane
• a bear

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After the sun came up Brian noticed ____________ was sticking up in the lake.

• the logs from the side of his shelter
•  Brian's bow
• the airplane
• a dead moose

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