Hatchet

What did Brian do after the plane engine died?

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

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

• He called the air traffic controller for instructions

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

When remembering the pilot’s heart attack, Brian realized that —-

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

• The plane could have crashed hundreds of miles off the flight plan course

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

• The pilot had not turned on the radio before sending 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

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

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

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

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

• Terry had suggested he get a hatchet, and his dad have given it

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

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 little turtle eggs

• Used his shoelaces to make a goose trap

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

• Watching the ravens eat all the blueberries

• Dropping his hatchet down an animal’s burrow

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

• Having the search plane come and go without seeing him

How did Brian learn the lesson to protect his food and improve his shelter?

• By having a fox move into his shelter

• By losing his catch of fish too heron

• By watching a family of deer

• By being sprayed by a skunk

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

• Pounding of sleet slamming against the shelter wall

• Howl of a coyote siting outside the door of his shelter

• Roaring of a tornado that whipped him around his shelter

• Smell of a fire much stronger than his campfire

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

• He built a raft to use as an operating base

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

• He sharpened his hatchet on a hard black rock

• 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?

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

• Some Native people had reported that a boy was living near the lake

• He saw smoke coming from Brian’s campfire

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