Hatchet

What did Brian do after the plane engine died?

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

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

• He called the air traffic controller for instructions.

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

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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

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

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

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

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

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

• a piece of wood that he could hollow out for a bowl

• items of clothing he had lost in the water and that he floated to shore

• some of the provisions that he had thrown from the plane

• the overhang of a ledge that he could use as a shelter

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

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

• He had seen a shower of sparks when he threw his hatchet at the procupine.

• Terry had suggested that he get a hatchet, and his dad had given it to him.

• His hatchet was outside in the rain, and he needed to bring it in.

• His father had taught Terry and him a lot about survival in the woods.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

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CCSS.RL.1.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

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

• began digging in the sand and found turtle eggs

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

• used his shoelaces to make a goose trap

• rebuilt his shelter wall to make it wolf-proof

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CCSS.RI.2.1

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

• seeing the wall of his shelter being torn apart by a bear

• having the search plane come and go without seeing him

• dropping his hatchet down an animal's burrow

• watching the ravens eat all the blueberries

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

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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 a heron

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

While sleeping after the moose attack, Brian was awakened by the ----------.

• roaring of a tornado that whipped him around his shelter

• smell of a fire much stronger than his campfire

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

• pounding of sleet slamming against the shelter wall

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

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

• He sharpened his hatchet on a hard black rock.

• He built a raft to use as an operating base.

• He recited a poem to the memory of the dead pilot.

• He tied a rope of old wines to a tree and then to his waist.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

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 saw the smoke coming from Brian's campfire.

• He had been sent to survey the lake and the land surrounding it.

• He heard the emergency transmitter and then saw the plane tail.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

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