WorksheetsHatchet 10-12 Comprehension
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
Which passage best demonstrates Brian's viewpoint on eating turtle eggs?
"If he looked at them he would have to eat more."
"He ate six of them, could have easily eaten all of them and not been full, but part of hem said to hold back, save the rest."
"He could not now believe the hunger. The eggs had awakened it fully, roaringly, so that it tore at him."
Which example BEST shows Brian's frustration with the fish spear?
"He had been so sure, so absolutely certain that it would work the night before."
"At first he tried throwing it, but that had no chance."
"He needed something to spring the spear forward, some way to make it move faster than the fish---some motive force."
How does the author use a literary device in the following passage?
He put all of his life into his legs, jumped logs and moved through brush like a light ghost, swiveling and running, his lungs filling and blowing
a metaphor is used to compare Brian's legs and his lungs.
A Simile is use dto emphasize Brian's swift movements.
A simile is used to describe the ghost.
Read each passage from the scene where the search plane flies away in Chapter 12.
Choose the passage in which the narrator's tone can be described as mournful:
"He went down to his knees and felt the tears start, cutting through the smoke and ash on his face, silently falling onto the stone."
"Look back, he thought. Look back and see the smoke now and turn, please turn."
"But it kept moving away until he could not hear it even in his imagination, in his soul."
