Hatchet Summary

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The book Hatchet is about a boy who survives the wilderness. Brian Robeson is a 13-year-old boy whose plane crashes. As the only survivor, Brian must learn how to live through the summer in a Canadian forest. He spends an entire year by himself, but then he finds a transmitter to contact a plane. Ultimately, Brian makes it home to his father after a summer alone in the woods.

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What does Brian do with the turtle eggs?

• Eat them

• Bait them for more food

• Bury some for later

• eat and bury them

How does brian lose his hatchet?

• By fighting a bear

• Threw it away

• Loses it in the water

• loses it in the mud

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

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

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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

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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.