Hatchet

What evidence best supports the idea that the secret is painful for Brian?

• Brian hated judges as he hated lawyers.

• Brian was going to wave or call out, but something stopped him. There was a man in the car.

• How could he tell her what he knew? So he had remained silent, shook his head and continued to stare unseeing at the countryside.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which passage helps set up the novel's opening conflict?

• The pilot had been talking, just a moment ago, complaining of the pain.

• Brian felt his eyes beginning to burn and knew there would be tears.

• It goes on your belt. His mother spoke now without looking at him.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

There were large things in the wookds. There were wolves, he thought, and bears - other things. In the dark he would be in the open here, just sitting at the bottom of a tree.

How do Brian's thoughts lead to action?

• Brian remembers his english teacher's advice to stay positive.

• Brian realizes he must build a shelter to increase his chances of survival.

• Brian is later attacked by certain animals.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which words in the following passage most strongly convey Brian's hunger?

"But there was such a hunger on him, such an emptiness, that he could not stop and kept stripping branches and eating berries by the handful, grabbing and jamming them into his mouth and swallowing them pits and all."

• handful, mouth, pits

• hunger, stripping, swallowing

• emptiness, grabbing, jamming

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

How does the author use personification in the following passage?

It was as if all the berries, all the pits had exploded in the center of him, ripped and tore at him.

• to make a comparison between the berries and the pits

• to show that the berries can sometimes have human traits

• to emphasize that the pits felt powerful and distructive inside Brian

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

He turned and looked at it. He hadn't done so badly at that. Maybe it wasn't much, but also maybe it was all he had for a home. All right, he thought, so I'll call it home.

from this passage we can infer that

• the shelter will keep Brian free of bothersome insect

• Brian is starting to realize he may not be rescued as soon as he had hoped.

• Brian is becoming familiar with the landscape and he thinks of the lake as home.

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CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which evidence shows how Brian responds to a challenge?

• If the bear wanted you, he would have taken you. It is something to understand, not something to run away from

• gone, and Brian had still not moved

• His tongue, stained with berry juice, stock to the roof of his mouth and he stared at the bear.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

How does the porcupine attack further the action of the novel?

• Because he was attacked in the dark, Brain thinks of ways to create fire.

• Brian feels self-pity, and he starts having dreams about his father.

• Brian uses his new knowledge to fight the bear.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

It was painstaking work, slow work, and he stayed with it for over two hours.

The word painstaking means the work is

• boring and repetitive

• painful and hard

• careful and demanding

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which passage best demonstrates Brian's viewpoint on eating turtle eggs?

• if he looked at them he would have to eat more.

• He ate six of them, could have easily eaten all of them and no been full, but part of him said to hold back, save the rest.

• He could not now believe the hunger. The eggs had awakened it fully, roaringly, so that it tore at him.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6