Hatchet

What did Brian do after the plane engine died?

• He called the air traffic controller for instructions.

• He put on his parachute, opened the plane door and jumped.

• He steered it toward a lake so it would crash into the water.

• He glided it toward an open meadow as the pilot had told him to do.

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When remembering the pilot's heart attack, Brian realized that--

• the plane could have crashed hundreds of miles off the flight plan course

• he was only a few a miles away from his destination

• his parents didn't know that he had run away to join his father

• the pilot had not turned on the radio before sending a distress call

While looking around the lake, what did Brian find that made him feel lucky?

• some of the provisions that he had thrown from the plane
• a piece of wood that he could hollow out for a bowl
• items of clothing he had lost in the water and that had floated to shore
• the overhang of a ledge that he could use as a shelter

What did Brian remember after the dream about his father and Terry?

• His hatchet was outside in the rain, and needed to bring it in.
• His father had taught Terry and him a lot about survival in the woods.
• Terry had suggested that he get a hatchet and his dad had given it to him.
• He had seen a shower of sparks when he threw his hatchet at the porcupine.

After studying tracks in the sand and trying to understand them, Brian---

• used his shoelaces to make a goose trap

• began digging in the sand and found turtle eggs

• rebuilt his shelter wall to make it wolf-proof

• followed the tracks to where a pair of ducks were nesting

What left Brian with nothing and made him want to die?

• seeing the wall of his shelter being torn apart by a bear
• watching the ravens eat all the blueberries
• having the search plane come and go without seeing him
• dropping his hatchet down and animal's burrow

How did Brian learn the lesson to protect his food and improve his shelter?

• by being sprayed by a skunk
• by watching a family of deer
• by having a fox move into his shelter
• by losing his catch of fish to heron

Why sleeping after the moose attack, Brian was awakened by the--

• pounding of sleet slamming against the shelter wall

• howl of a coyote sitting outside the door of his shelter

• smell of a fire much stronger than his campfire

• roaring of a tornado that whipped him around his shelter

What did Brian do before trying to get the survival pack from the plane?

• He tied a rope of old vines to a tree and then to his waist.
• He sharpened his hatchet on a hard black rock.
• He recited a poem to the memory of the dead pilot.
• He built a raft to use as an operating base.

Why did the pilot who rescued Brian land on the lake?

• Some Native people had reported that a boy was living near the lake.
• He had been sent to survey the lake and the land surrounding it.
• He saw the smoke coming from Brian's campfire.
• He heard the emergency transmitter and then saw the plane tail.