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Hatchet Ch 13-14

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the main conflict of Hatchet and how is it resolved?

a)

Brian is sprayed by a skunk and must take four baths a day to get rid of the smell.

b)

Brian is alone in the wilderness and must learn how to take care of himself.

c)

Brian is angry with his mother over the secret and his mother tells her boyfriend to go away.

d)

Brian and Terry get lost and they must find their way home.

2.

What question does Chapters 13-14 answer?

a)

Which special event is Brian missing this summer?

b)

What are Brian's parents doing to try to find him?

c)

Which event changed the way Brian started to live?

d)

When will Brian be rescued?

3.

A good title for Chapter 14 would be?

a)

How Long?

b)

Alone in the Woods

c)

Fresh Fish

d)

Mistakes

4.

How does Brian store his fish?

a)

Brian tied the fish with one of his shoelaces and hung them in a tree.

b)

Brian wove a basket from small branches and places it at the edge of the lake.

c)

Brian put the fish on his storage shelf.

d)

Brian built a holding pen out of rocks at the edge of the lake.

5.

Brian fashioned a ladder from __________

a)

grapevines

b)

a dead pine

c)

the wing of the airplane

6.

Brian decided to store the food he caught __________.

a)

on the ledge above his shelter

b)

tied in his jacket and hung up in the tall trees

c)

buried in the sand under his sleeping bag

d)

in a bowl-shaped rock

7.

Brian took four baths a day __________.

a)

because he was itchy from all the bug bites

b)

to get rid of the skunk odor

c)

to cool off during the heat wave

8.

The day after the skunk took Brian's eggs, he __________.

a)

moved to a new location

b)

rebuilt his shelter

c)

decided to keep a bright fire at all times

d)

kept his hatchet close at hand for fighting off animals

9.

A skunk came into Brian's shelter looking for __________.

a)

fish

b)

a place to get out of the rain

c)

the turtle eggs

d)

warmth

10.

On Brian's first feast day, he ate __________.

a)

fish

b)

foolbirds

c)

rabbit

d)

opossum

11.

When Brian first began to use the bow and arrows he could not catch fish because __________.

a)

Brian's arrows were not sharp enough to pierce the skin of the fish

b)

Brian was not fast enough to hit the fish and they swam away

c)

the water bent the light making the fish look like they were in a different place than where they really were

d)

the fish stayed in the deep water and Brian could not get close enough to catch them

12.

When the plane turns around and leaves Brian, he wishes to die. Brian even __________.

a)

tries to drown himself in the lake

b)

cuts himself with the hatchet

c)

jumps off the ledge above his shelter

d)

wrestles with a bear

13.

The plane had crashed ________ days before.

a)

35

b)

20

c)

6

d)

47

14.

While he was hunting Brian sensed an animal nearby. It was a __________.

a)

bobcat

b)

raccoon

c)

fox

d)

wolf

15.

Brain was hunting for __________ to eat.

a)

wild greens

b)

rabbits

c)

foolbirds

d)

squirrels

16.

How do you know a good deal of time has passed between the end of Chapter 12 when the plane flies away and the beginning of Chapter 13?

a)

At the end of Chapter 12 Brian was going to make a bow and arrow to catch fish and at the beginning of Chapter 13 Brian is tired of eating fish.

b)

Brian is keeping track of the days by making notches with his hatchet on a piece of wood, and he states that many notches have been made.

c)

Brian is placing pebbles in a hollowed out rock; one for each day he has been in the wilderness, and the rock will no longer hold any more pebbles.

17.

What does Brian call the chicken-like birds?

a)

Dodo’s

b)

Small fry

c)

Foolbirds

18.

Brian has been the new Brian for _______ days.

a)

5

b)

35

c)

42

d)

9

19.

The new Brian was full of ...

a)

hope

b)

food

c)

happpiness

d)

fear

20.

One mistake Brian made was storing ______ in his shelter.

a)

skunks

b)

fish

c)

birds

d)

food

21.

Another mistake Brian made was

a)

Feeding the hungry wolves which caused them to return

b)

making a bow out of the wrong wood so it broke amaking splinters go into his forehead

c)

Feeding fish bones to the fish, which made them fatter

22.

An "again and again" that is repeated in these two chapters is

a)

fish fry

b)

tough hope

c)

mistakes

d)

I was new

23.

According to Paulson page 122, what is the "knowledge that drives all creatures in the forest"?

a)

you must dig if you want to live

b)

the hunt is key

c)

fishing is fun

d)

Food is all

24.

Brian realized two things after the plane had come and gone...

a)

he was going to die and he wanted to see his parents again

b)

the plane would circle back and he would be okay

c)

he was not the same Brian and he would not die

d)

his parents are working together to find him and the FBI is also helping

25.

Brian kept a _________ journal.

a)

folder notebook

b)

spiral notebook

c)

mental

d)

Brian did not keep a journal.

26.

After the skunk sprayed Brian in the face, he was blinded for ___________.

a)

1 hour

b)

All Day

c)

2 hours

d)

3 hours