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?

1.   ?    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.
2.   ?    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.
3.   ?    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.

Brian was hunting for ____________ to eat.

1.   ?    wild greens
2.   ?    rabbits
3.   ?    foolbirds
4.   ?    squirrel

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

1.   ?    bobcat
2.   ?    raccoon
3.   ?    fox
4.   ?    wolf

The plane had crashed ____________ days before.

1.   ?    35
2.   ?    20
3.   ?    6
4.   ?    47

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

1.   ?    tries to drown himself in the lake
2.   ?    cuts himself with the hatchet
3.   ?    jumps off the ledge above his shelter
4.   ?    wrestles with a bear

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

1.   ?    Brian’s arrows were not sharp enough to pierce the skin of the fish
2.   ?    Brian was not fast enough to hit the fish and they swam away
3.   ?    the water bent the light making the fish look like they were in a different place than where they really were
4.   ?    the fish stayed in the deep water and Brian could not get close enough to catch them

On Brian's first feast day he ate ______________.

1.   ?    fish
2.   ?    foolbirds
3.   ?    rabbit
4.   ?    opossum

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

1.   ?    fish
2.   ?    a place to get out of the rain
3.   ?    the turtle eggs
4.   ?    warmth

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

1.   ?    moved to a new location
2.   ?    rebuilt his shelter
3.   ?    decided to keep a bright fire at all times
4.   ?    kept his hatchet close at hand for fighting off animals

Brian took four baths a day _______________.

1.   ?    because he was itchy from all the bug bites
2.   ?    to get rid of the skunk odor
3.   ?    to cool off during the heat wave

Brian decided to store the food he caught _______________.

1.   ?    on the ledge above his shelter
2.   ?    tied in his jacket and hung up in the tall trees
3.   ?    buried in the sand under his sleeping mat
4.   ?    in a bowl-shaped rock

Brian fashioned a ladder from ____________.

1.   ?    grapevines
2.   ?    a dead pine
3.   ?    the wing of the airplane

How does Brian store his fish?

1.   ?    Brian tied the fish with one of his shoelaces and hung them in a tree.
2.   ?    Brian wove a basket from small branches and placed it at the edge of the lake.
3.   ?    Brian put the fish on his storage shelf.
4.   ?    Brian built a holding pen out of rocks at the edge of the lake.

A good title for Chapter 14 could be ___________.

1.   ?    How Long?
2.   ?    Alone in the Woods
3.   ?    Fresh Fish
4.   ?    Mistakes

Which question does Chapters 13-14 answer?

1.   ?    Which special event is Brian missing this summer?
2.   ?    What are Brian's parents doing to try to find him?
3.   ?    Which event changed the way Brian started to live?
4.   ?    When will Brian be rescued?

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

1.   ?    Brian is sprayed by a skunk and must take four baths a day to get rid of the smell.
2.   ?    Brian is alone in the wilderness and must learn how to take care of himself.
3.   ?    Brian is angry with his mother over the secret and his mother tells her boyfriend to go away.
4.   ?    Brian and Terry get lost and they must find their way home.