Brian's Survival Quiz

What did Brian do after the plane engine died?

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

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

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

• He called the air traffic controller for instructions

When remembering the pilot's heart attack, Brian realizes that...

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

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

• The plane might have landed hundred of miles off the flight plan course

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

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

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

• Items of clothing that had been lost in the water during the crash

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

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 porcupine

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

• His father had taught Terry and him alot about survival in the woods

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

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

• 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

• Began digging in the sand and found turtle eggs

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

• Watching the ravens eat all the blueberries

• Having the search plane come and go without seeing him

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

• Dropping his hatchet down an animal's burrow

What led Brian to learn that he should protect food and improve his shelter?

• By losing his catch of fish to a heron

• By watching a family of deer

• By being sprayed by a skunk

• By having a fox move into his shelter

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

• Howl of a coyote sitting outside the door to his shelter

• Smell of a fire much stronger than his campfire

• Roaring of a tornado that whipped high around inside his shelter

• 1. Pounding of sleet against the shelter wall

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

• He recited a poem in memory of the dead pilot

• He sharpened his hatchet on a hard black rock

• He built a raft to use as an operating base

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

Why did the pilot who rescued Brian land on the lake?

• There had been reports that a young boy was living near the lake

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

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

• He saw the smoke coming from Brian’s campfire