Hatchet - English Quiz

1. Page 60 - The meal had been turkey and they cooked it in the back yard in the barbecue over charcoal with the lid down tight. His father had put hickory chips on the charcoal and the smell of the cooking turkey and the hickory smoke had filled the yard. When his father took the lid off, smiling, the smile that had come out was unbelievable, and when they sat to eat the meat was wet with juice and rich and had the taste of smoke in it . . .   He had to stop this. His mouth was full of saliva and his stomach was twisting and growling.
   
   This selection uses which common literary technique?
   
   a)  vivid imagery
   b)  factual information
   c)  first-person storytelling
   d)  dialogue between characters
    
2. Read these lines from Hatchet.
   
   Page 98 - He smiled. City boy, he thought. Oh, you city boy with your city ways-he made a mirror in his mind, a mirror of himself, and saw how he must look. City boy with your city ways sitting in the sand trying to read the tracks and not knowing, not understanding.
   
   This passage includes which literary technique?
   
   a)  alliteration
   b)  onomatopoeia
   c)  rhyme
   d)  repetition
    
3. Page 4 - "Ever fly in the copilot's seat before?" He leaned over and lifted the headset off his right ear and put it on his temple, yelling to overcome the sound of the engine . . . "First time."
        "It's not as complicated as it looks. Good plane like this almost flies itself." The pilot shrugged. "Makes my job easy."  . . .
        Brian shook his head. "I'd better not."
        "Sure. Try. . . "
   
   This selection uses which common literary technique?
   
   a)  vivid imagery
   b)  factual information
   c)  first-person storytelling
   d)  dialogue between characters
    
4. Read this line from Hatchet.
   
   Page 152 - He started to move, ever so slowly; her head turned and her back hair went up-like the hair on an angry dog-and he stopped, took a slow breath, the hair went down and she ate.
   
   This line includes which literary technique?
   
   a)  simile
   b)  onomatopoeia
   c)  metaphor
   d)  alliteration
    
5. Which of these lines from Hatchet is an example of personification?
   
   a)  Page 168 - It wasn't strong, he couldn't use it to pull a Tarzan and swing from a tree, but it should hold the raft to the plane.
   b)  Page 168 - Pushing the raft, he figured, was about like trying to push an aircraft carrier.
   c)  Page 163 - If I could get the pack, he thought. Oh, if I could get at the pack.
   d)  Page 162 - The wind had torn it out, lifted it, and thrown it to the top of the ridge and Brian felt lucky once more that he had not been killed or more seriously injured.
    
6. Page 193 - Gut cherries were termed choke cherries, and made good jelly. The nut bushes where the foolbirds hid were hazelnut bushes. The two kinds of rabbits were snowshoes and cottontails; the foolbirds were ruffed grouse (also called fool hens by trappers, for their stupidity); the small food fish were bluegills, sunfish, and perch; the turtle eggs were laid by a snapping turtle, as he had thought; the wolves were timber wolves, which are not known to attack or bother people; the moose was a moose.
   
   This selection uses which common literary technique?
   
   a)  vivid imagery
   b)  factual information
   c)  first-person storytelling
   d)  dialogue between characters
    
7. Read this line from Hatchet.
   
   Page 36 -  But as soon as he cleared a place, as soon as he killed them, more came, thick, whining, buzzing masses of them.
   
   This line includes which literary technique?
   
   a)  simile
   b)  onomatopoeia
   c)  metaphor
   d)  alliteration
    
8. Which of these lines from Hatchet is an example of hyperbole?
   
   a)  Page 36 - (Speaking of mosquitoes) He coughed them up, spat them out, sneezed them out, closed his eyes and kept brushing his face, slapping and crushing them by the dozens, by the hundreds.
   b)  Page 36 - His clothes were wet and clammy and there was a faint chill.
   c)  Page 36 - But all in a haze, all in a haze-world.
   d)  Page 36 - So he sat and stared at the lake, felt the pain come and go in waves, and watched the sun come over the end of the lake.
    
9. Read this line from Hatchet.
   
   Page 148 - In the second clump he saw a bird, moved close to it, paused when the head feathers came up and it made a sound like a cricket-a sign of alarm just before it flew-then moved closer when the feathers went down and the bird relaxed.
   
   This line includes which literary technique?
   
   a)  simile
   b)  personification
   c)  metaphor
   d)  repetition
    
10. Which of these lines from Hatchet is an example of simile?
    
    a)  Page 154 - A mystery sound. A spirit sound. A bad sound.
    b)  Page 85 - "Ahhh..."
    c)  Page 176 - He exploded out of the surface, bumping his head on the side of the elevator when he came up and took air like a whale, pushing the stale air out until he wheezed, taking new in.
    d)  Page 106 - At the last trip to the top of the stone bluff with wood he stopped, sat on the point overlooking the lake, and rested.
     
11. Page 107  - Sitting on one limb was a blue bird with a crest and sharp beak, a kingfisher-he thought of a picture he had seen once-which left the branch while he watched and dove into the water. It emerged a split part of a second later. In its mouth was a small fish, wiggling silver in the sun. It took the fish to a limb, juggled it twice, and swallowed it whole..
    
    This selection uses which common literary technique?
    
    a)  vivid imagery
    b)  factual information
    c)  first-person storytelling
    d)  dialogue between characters
     
12. Read these lines from Hatchet.
    
    Page 84 - I don't have  a fire. I know about fire; I know I need a fire.
    
    This line includes which literary technique?
    
    a)  alliteration
    b)  onomatopoeia
    c)  alliteration
    d)  repetition
     
13. Page 73 - The berries were full and ripe, and he tasted one to find it sweet, and with none of the problems of the gut cherries. Although they did not grown in clusters, there were many of them and they were easy to pick and Brian smiled and started eating. Sweet juice, he thought.
    
    This selection uses which common literary technique?
    
    a)  vivid imagery
    b)  factual information
    c)  first-person storytelling
    d)  dialogue between characters
     
14. Read this line from Hatchet.
    
    Page 73 - Here the trees were not all the way down but twisted and snapped off halfway up from the ground, so their tops were all down and rotted and gone, leaving the snags poking into the sky like broken teeth.
    
    This line includes which literary technique?
    
    a)  simile
    b)  onomatopoeia
    c)  metaphor
    d)  repetition
     
15. Which of these lines from page 182 in Hatchet is an example of personification?
    
    a)  Many times he thought he would not make it.
    b)  He didn't even notice the mosquitoes that tore into him like a gray, angry cloud.
    c)  He kicked and pulled and pushed, taking the shortest way straight back to shore, hanging to rest may times, then surging again and again.
    d)  The bag fought him. It was almost as if it didn't want to leave the plane.
     
16. Page 194 - Game becomes seemingly plentiful in the fall (it's easier to see with the leaves off the brush) but in winter it gets scarce and sometimes simply nonexistent as predators (fox, lynx, wolf, owls, weasels, fisher, martin, northern coyote) sweep through areas and wipe things out.
    
    This selection uses which common literary technique?
    
    a)  vivid imagery
    b)  factual information
    c)  first-person storytelling
    d)  dialogue between characters
     
17. Read this line from Hatchet.
    
    Page 151 - But something caught his ear or nose and he began to turn, and had his head half around, when he saw a brown wall of fur detach itself from the forest to his rear and come down on him like a runaway truck.
    
    This line includes which literary technique?
    
    a)  simile
    b)  onomatopoeia
    c)  metaphor
    d)  alliteration
     
18. Which of these lines from page 41 in Hatchet is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
    
    a)  Not a large fish, but it made a big splash near the beaver, and as if by a signal there were suddenly little splops all over the sides of the lake.
    b)  Traffic, people talking, sounds all the time-the hum and whine of the city.
    c)  Brian watched them for a time, still in the half-daze, still not thinking well.
    d)  Hisses and blurks, small sounds, birds singing, hum of insects, splashes from the fish jumping-there was great noise here, but a noise he did not know.
     
19. Read these lines from Hatchet.
    
    Page 185 - Incredible wealth. It was like all the holidays in the world, all the birthdays there were.
    
    These lines include with literary technique?
    
    a)  simile
    b)  personification
    c)  metaphor
    d)  repetition
     
20. Which of these lines from Hatchet is an example of simile?
    
    a)  Page 174 - "Arrrgghhh!" He yelled it, choked on it, a snarl-cry of rage at this own carelessness.
    b)  Page 175 - "That was the kind of thing I would have done before, He said the the lake, to the sky, to the trees.
    c)  Page 174 - The hatchet cut through the aluminum as if it were soft cheese.
    d)  Page 175 - Here it was impossible to know the exact depth.
     
21. Page 164 - He slept, deep and down with only the picture of the plane tail sticking up in his mind.
    
    a)  alliteration
    b)  onomatopoeia
    c)  hyperbole
    d)  repetition
    
    
     

-------------Key-----------------

1. a)  vivid imagery
2. d)  repetition
3. d)  dialogue between characters
4. a)  simile
5. d)  Page 162 - The wind had torn it out, lifted it, and thrown it to the top of the ridge and Brian felt lucky once more that he had not been killed or more seriously injured.
6. b)  factual information
7. b)  onomatopoeia
8. a)  Page 36 - (Speaking of mosquitoes) He coughed them up, spat them out, sneezed them out, closed his eyes and kept brushing his face, slapping and crushing them by the dozens, by the hundreds.
9. a)  simile
10. c)  Page 176 - He exploded out of the surface, bumping his head on the side of the elevator when he came up and took air like a whale, pushing the stale air out until he wheezed, taking new in.
11. a)  vivid imagery
12. d)  repetition
13. a)  vivid imagery
14. a)  simile
15. d)  The bag fought him. It was almost as if it didn't want to leave the plane.
16. b)  factual information
17. a)  simile
18. c)  Brian watched them for a time, still in the half-daze, still not thinking well.
19. a)  simile
20. c)  Page 174 - The hatchet cut through the aluminum as if it were soft cheese.
21. a)  alliteration