Hatchet AR Quiz
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English
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4th Grade
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This quiz assesses fourth-grade students' reading comprehension of Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet," focusing on plot sequencing, character motivation, and survival themes. The questions target students' ability to recall specific details from the text, understand cause-and-effect relationships, and track Brian's problem-solving journey throughout his wilderness ordeal. Students demonstrate comprehension by identifying key survival moments such as Brian's plane crash response, his discovery of shelter and food sources, and his eventual rescue. The quiz requires students to synthesize information across multiple chapters, connecting Brian's experiences with his growing survival skills and emotional resilience. These questions align with grade 4 expectations for literal comprehension, inference-making, and understanding character development within adventure fiction. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying fourth-grade literature. The assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, from checking homework completion after independent reading assignments to providing formative assessment data on student comprehension before class discussions or writing activities. Teachers can use this as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before diving deeper into themes of survival, resilience, and coming-of-age, or as a review tool before summative assessments. The quiz effectively supports differentiated instruction by allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through multiple-choice responses while building confidence with familiar text. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards RL.4.1 for drawing inferences from explicit text details, RL.4.3 for describing characters and events using specific text evidence, and RL.4.10 for reading grade-level complex texts with appropriate support.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Brian do after the plane engine died?
He put on his parachute, opened the plane door and jumped.
He called the air-traffic controller for instructions.
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.
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When remembering the pilot's heart attack, Brian realized that...
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.
the pilot had not turned on the radio before sending a distress call.
the plane might have landed hundreds of miles off the flight-plan course.
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
While looking around the lake, what did Brian find that made him feel lucky?
The overhang of a ledge that he could use as a shelter.
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 that had been lost in the water during the crash.
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Brian remember after the dream about his father and Terry?
His hatchet was outside in the rain and he needed to bring it in.
He had seen a shower of sparks when he threw his hatchet at the porcupine.
Terry had suggested that he get a hatchet and his dad had given it to him.
His father had taught Terry and him a lot about survival in the woods.
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
After studying tracks in the sand and trying to understand them, Brian....
rebuilt his shelter wall to make it wolf proof.
followed the tracks to where a pair of ducks were nesting.
began digging in the sand and found turtle eggs.
used his shoelaces to make a goose trap.
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What left Brian with nothing and made him want to die?
Dropping his hatchet down an animal's burrow.
Watching the ravens eat all of the blueberries.
Having the search plane come and go without seeing him.
Seeing the wall of his shelter being torn apart by a bear.
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What led Brian to learn that he should protect food and improve his shelter?
By having a fox move into his shelter.
By watching a family of deer.
By being sprayed by a skunk.
By losing his catch of fish to a heron.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.3
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
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