Hatchet U1L6 Review

If something is weathered, it is

• worn out.

• hard to see.

• moving slowly.

• very flimsy.

What does the word dormant mean in this sentence? These animals will be dormant for a while.

• growing

• eating

• inactive

• playing

What does regulate mean?

• to doubt

• to imitate

• to gobble

• to control

What are intervals?

• pieces of wood

• periods of time

• animal tracks

• piles of rocks

The time when the sun sets and it gets dark is called

• craft.

• find.

• dusk.

• whirl.

The following question has two parts. First, answer Part A then Part B. Part A: What did the animal that Brian heard do?

• It came from the water into the shelter.

• It came up from the water and then returned to the water.

• It came from up the hill and headed down to the water.

• It came near the woodpile and then crawled away.

Part B: Which sentence best supports your answer for Part A?

• He would need a large woodpile to get through the night.

• It was so precious to him, so close and sweet a thing, the yellow and red flames brightening the dark interior of the shelter, the happy crackle of the dry wood as it burned, that he could not leave it.

• Up from the water to a small pile of sand, then back down into the water.

• Up the hill from the campsite the same windstorm that left him a place to land the plane—had that only been three, four days ago?—had dropped three large white pines across each other.

Brian thought “they” might come. Who is he thinking about?

• animals

• friends

• hunters

• searchers

When Brian heard the animal making sounds, he wasn’t too worried because

• he had plenty of wood.

• he knew what the animal was.

• the porcupine had run away.

• the sounds were not loud.

Brian could not eat the shells of the eggs because

• they were too hard.

• they tasted terrible.

• they were covered with sand.

• they were too leathery.