Hatchet Inference Questions

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

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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.

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

• smell of a fire much stronger than his campfire.

• roaring of a tornado that whipped him around inside his shelter.

• pounding of sleet against the shelter wall.

• howl of a coyote sitting outside the door of his shelter.

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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 built a raft to use as an operating base.

• He sharpened his hatchet on a hard rock.

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

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

• He saw the smoke coming from Brian's campfire.

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

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

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

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