WorksheetsHatchet Summary
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 29mins
Read the paragraph below:
The book Hatchet is about a boy who survives the wilderness. Brian Robeson is a 13-year-old boy whose plane crashes. As the only survivor, Brian must learn how to live through the summer in a Canadian forest. He spends an entire year by himself, but then he finds a transmitter to contact a plane. Ultimately, Brian makes it home to his father after a summer alone in the woods.
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What does Brian do with the turtle eggs?
Eat them
Bait them for more food
Bury some for later
eat and bury them
How does brian lose his hatchet?
By fighting a bear
Threw it away
Loses it in the water
loses it in the mud
What did Brian do after the plane engine died?
He called the air traffic controller for instructions.
He put on his parachute, opened the plane door and jumped.
He steered it toward a lake so it would crash into the water.
He glided it toward an open meadow as the pilot had told him to do.
When remembering the pilot's heart attack, Brian realized that--
the plane could have crashed hundreds of miles off the flight plan course
he was only a few a miles away from his destination
his parents didn't know that he had run away to join his father
the pilot had not turned on the radio before sending a distress call
After studying tracks in the sand and trying to understand them, Brian---
used his shoelaces to make a goose trap
began digging in the sand and found turtle eggs
rebuilt his shelter wall to make it wolf-proof
followed the tracks to where a pair of ducks were nesting
Why sleeping after the moose attack, Brian was awakened by the--
pounding of sleet slamming against the shelter wall
howl of a coyote sitting outside the door of his shelter
smell of a fire much stronger than his campfire
roaring of a tornado that whipped him around his shelter
Who is the author of Hatchet?
Paul Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Steven Gaulsen
Paul Garysen
Who gave Brain the hatchet?
Mr. Perpich
The pilot
His dad
His mom
Why is Brain going on a plane trip?
To stay with his father during the summer
To go on vacation
To go hiking with the Boy Scouts
To go to his mother's house
We can infer that the Hatchet will be used for....
Protection from wild animals
playing a game
chopping up wood
cutting up meat to eat
What is the secret that Brian thinks about often?
He doesn't know how to survive the woods.
He knows his parents will be worried about him.
He saw his mother kissing a strange man.
The pilot died in the crash.
Why is it unlikely that Brian will be rescued quickly?
Brian has a hard time building a fire.
The pilot probably dies of a heart attack.
Brian has to find food to eat first.
The plane goes off course before it crashes.
Where was Brian after the crash?
