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Hatchet - Chapters 1-7

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where does the story take place?

a)

Brian's home town

b)

Canadian back woods

c)

At an airport

d)

At Brian's father's home

2.

Brian Robeson was hesitant to wear what on his belt?

a)

his nail clippers

b)

a walkie-talkie

c)

his new hatchet

d)

his new belt buckle

3.

While Brian was riding in the Cessna, he was thinking about ____.

a)

his girlfriend

b)

catching fish

c)

what he and his father were going to do over the summer

d)

his parent's divorce

4.

Brian is a 13 year-old boy who is upset by his mother's secret.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What is the main conflict in Chapters 1-2?

a)

Brian's parents get a divorce.

b)

Brian's mother gives him a gift he doesn't like.

c)

Brian must spend the summer with his father instead of with friends.

d)

The pilot was flying the Cessna when he had a heart attack, leaving Brian alone in the plane.

6.
What was "The Secret" to which Brian's thoughts often wander?
a)
His father is seeing another woman
b)
He is running away
c)
His mother is pregnant
d)
His mother is seeing another man
7.
What creatures bothered Brian just before the sun came up on his first morning in the woods?
a)
Vampires
b)
Zombies
c)
Wolves
d)
Mosquitoes 
8.
What is the first food that Brian finds in the woods?
a)
Fish 
b)
Berries
c)
Roots
d)
Worms
9.
Brian woke in the middle of the night___________.
a)
when he had a nightmare
b)
when an opossum climbed over him
c)
with a terrible stomach ache
d)
when he heard a plane
10.

What advice does Brian remember getting from his English Teacher Mr. Perpich?

a)

Give up all hope.

b)

Stay Positive

c)

It's best to whine and cry when things don't go your way

d)

Negativity is important

11.

What kind of shelter did Brian make?

a)

logs piled into a teepee

b)

rocks stacked with a thatch roof

c)

a somewhat cave structure with a door made of branches in front

d)

mud and sticks piled into a dome shape

12.

For the first time since the crash, Brian was...

a)

not thinking of himself, but of the creature he saw in the berries and wondering if it was as surprised to see Brian as he was to see it.

b)

ready to stay in the wilderness forever.

c)

able to make a phone call on his cell phone and reach his mother.

d)

delighted to be eating a cheeseburger and malt.

13.

At the end of chapter 7, Brian goes to sleep with what in his hand?

a)

the raspberries he found that day

b)

his cell phone

c)

a stick

d)

his hatchet

14.

Brian Robeson was hesitant to wear what on his belt?

a)

his nail clippers

b)

a walkie-talkie

c)

his new hatchet

d)

his new belt buckle

15.

Brian Robeson was headed to _____ in a Cessna 406 to spend the summer with his dad.

a)

the coast in Washington state

b)

the wilderness of North Dakota

c)

the oilfields of Canada

d)

the cornfields of Canada