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Hatchet Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why was Brian going to spend the summer in Canada?

a)

Work a summer job

b)

Attend summer camp

c)

Visit his mother

d)

Visit his father

2.

What does Brian know that his father does not know.

a)

His mother has a secret.

b)

His mother did not want the divorce to happen.

c)

His mother has a new job in the city.

d)

His mother is leaving for the summer.

3.

Brian has two thoughts about landing the plane. What does he decide to do?

a)

He forces the plane to land.

b)

He forces the plane to land in a field.

c)

He waits for the fuel to run out and then tries to land the plane in a lake.

d)

He waits for the fuel to run out and then land the plane.

4.
What did the pilot teach Brian?
a)
How to read the instrument panel
b)
How to fill the gas tank
c)
How to steer the plane
d)
How to use a hatchet
5.
How old is Brian?
a)
12
b)
13
c)
14
d)
15
6.
Why is Brian visiting his father?
a)
His parents are divorced.
b)
His father is sick.
c)
His mother died.
d)
His father got a new job.
7.

As the pilot and Brian were flying, something happened to the pilot. What was that?

a)

The pilot talked the entire flight.

b)

The pilot didn't know how to fly this plane.

c)

The pilot had a heart attack.

d)

The pilot gave Brian food because it was a long flight.

8.

Brian decided to "think ahead" and store some food. He did this by...

a)

he buried eggs and fish in his shelter

b)

placing berries in his wind breaker and hanging it up high in his shelter

c)

He placed food on a high ledge above his shelter and blocked in fish in a small pool

9.

According to Brian, the most important rule of survival is...

a)

finding shelter and building a fire

b)

that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work

c)

make a weapon from the hatchet for survival

d)

look for the closest food source, like berries

10.

What is the "secret"?

a)

his mom lied to him about where he lived

b)

his mom kissed another man

c)

he has a twin brother he did not know about

d)

he is adopted

11.

What nickname does Brian give to the berries that made him sick?

a)

sick berries

b)

gross berris

c)

bad berries

d)

gut cherries

12.

Brian tried lighting many items. Finally, he was able to make a fire by igniting___________.

a)

grass and twigs

b)

the twenty dollar bill in his pocket

c)

birch bark peelings

d)

dry leaves

13.

author interrupts the sequence of events in a story to explain something that happened before the story began

a)

foreshadowing

b)

flashback

c)

mood

d)

theme

14.

the way a passage makes the reader feel

a)

epilogue

b)

flashback

c)

mood

d)

theme

15.
Who gave Brian the hatchet?
a)
his father
b)
his mother
c)
his high school teacher
d)
the pilot
16.

How did Brian get out of the plane?

a)

He stepped out the door

b)

He went through the shattered windshield

c)

He went out the part of the plane that cracked open

d)

He was ejected from the plane

17.

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

a)

howl of a coyote of a coyote outside his shelter door.

b)

smell of a fire much stronger than his own.

c)

pounding of sleet slamming against the shelter wall.

d)

roaring of a tornado that whipped him around his shelter.

18.

How did Brian learn the lesson to improve his shelter?

a)

by having a fox move into his shelter

b)

by being sprayed by a skunk

c)

by losing his catch of fish to a bird

d)

by watching a family of deer.

19.

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

a)

He heard the emergency transmitter and saw the plane tail.

b)

Some Native people had reported that a boy was living by the lake.

c)

He had been sent to survey the land surrounding the lake.

d)

He saw the smoke coming from Brian's campfire.

20.

What did Brian do before trying to get the survival pack from the plane?

a)

He sharpened his hatchet on a black rock.

b)

He built a raft to use as an operating base.

c)

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

d)

He recited a a poem in memory of the pilot.