Hatchet Vocabulary Chapters 1-3

Brian had never been in any kind of plane, never seen the ________ of a plane except in films or on television. It was loud and confusing.

• consuming

• initial

• rudder

• cockpit

There had been the ________ excitement, of course, but the excitement had worn off in a couple of minutes.

• consuming

• initial

• rudder

• cockpit

The pilot sat large, his hands lightly on the wheel, feet on the _______ pedals. He seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane.

• consuming

• rudder

• initial

• cockpit

It was a small plane, and the engine was so loud, so roaring and _________ and loud, that it ruined any chance for conversation.

• consuming

• initial

• rudder

• gratitude

The court had left him with his mother except for the summers and what the judge called "__________ rights." In the summer Brian would live with his father.

• visitation

• bushplane

• riveted

• spasm

Brian was riding up from New York with some drilling equipment that had to be specially made in the city, riding in a _______ with the pilot named Jim or Jake.

• visitation

• bushplane

• riveted

• spasm

He stopped as a fresh _______ of pain hit him. Even Brian could see how bad it was--the pain drove the pilot back into the seat, back and down.

• hokey

• bushplane

• riveted

• spasm

Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip. The head was in a stout leather case that had a brass _______ belt loop.

• visitation

• riveted

• hokey

• spasm

He would normally have said no, that it looked too ______ to have a hatchet on your belt.

• bushplane

• riveted

• hokey

• spasm

The pilot did not move except that his head rolled on a neck impossibly loose as the plane hit a small bit of _________.

• contracted

• striken

• turbulence

• slight