Hatchet Test

Question 1

Pessimistic

Answer 1

Someone that is negative about something

Question 2

Ingenuity

Answer 2

To be clever

Question 3

Exasperated

Answer 3

To be intensely irritated or frustrated

Question 4

Stymied

Answer 4

To stop or prevent 

Question 5

Crude

Answer 5

In a natural and raw state

Question 6

What did Brian mean when he said, “mistakes were more serious in his situation than in the city.”

Answer 6

If he makes a mistake in the wilderness then he could get himself killed but if he made a mistake in the city then it might not be as serious

Question 7

What lesson did the skunk teach Brian?

Answer 7

It taught him that food drives animals and he needs to make a better storage for his food

Question 8

How did Brian attract fish to him?

Answer 8

He used fish guts

Question 9

What was Brian’s solution for storing fish?

Answer 9

He built a pen in the water out of big boulders

Question 10

What did Brian use to keep track of time? Give an example

Answer 10

He used events, for example, First Meat, when Brian first caught his fool bird

Question 11

What was special about his “First Meat?”

Answer 11

It was special because it was the first time he caught a fool bird and ate it

Question 12

What is brushpile one and why does Brian give it this name? 

Answer 12

First raft he made to go get the survival kit
He named it this because everything in the Wilderness that he had made did not take only one try to make it.

Question 13

What important lessons did Brian quickly remember after dropping the hatchet in chapter 18?

Answer 13

He remembered that his hatchet is his most important resource

Question 14

Why did Brian save the pieces of aluminum from the fuselage?

Answer 14

He saved these pieces so we could use them later, this means that Brian is resourceful

Question 15

What sight made Brian scream in horror in chapter 18?

Answer 15

The sight of the pilot’s face getting eaten by the fish underwater.

Question 16

How was Brian rescued?

Answer 16

Brian leaves the transmitter on and the pilot hears the signal coming from the transmitter and comes down to Brian’s rescue

Question 17

Brian was once again alone with just his hatchet in chapter 16. Why didn’t he feel the
same hopelessness as when he first landed?

Answer 17

This is because Brian already has done it before and now he knows that he could do it again

Question 18

Why does Brian say he had an “insane’ day in chapter 16? Explain.

Answer 18

This is because in the same day, he had a moose attack him/ he almost died when the moose tried to drown him/ got his rib cage hurt. And when the tornado came it destroyed his shelter, tools, fire, and food storage

Question 19

What was it about the foolbirds that drove Brian crazy? Two reasons.

Answer 19

One reason was the fact that the fool-birds blended into the background so well that he wouldn’t see them (sort of like they are taunting Brian) and because they were so dum

Question 20

How did Brian’s experience affect him when he returned home? What were some of the specific impacts of his experience?

Answer 20

Brain was a lot more observant/more aware/ and he marveled over food more

Question 21

Give an example of Brian using his prior knowledge to help him survive.

Answer 21

When he needed to catch fish he kept on missing but then remembers from school that the water bends light and realized he has to aim at an angle

Question 22

Why is the mood at the end of chapter 12 pessimistic?

Answer 22

Because he thinks he had missed his ONLY chance of being saved

Question 23

Brian says, “A flip of some giant coin, and he was the loser,” after he is attacked by the moose and loses his shelter due to the tornado. According to Brian, how does he explain his misfortune?

Answer 23

He is basically saying that he had lots of bad luck

Question 24

What did Brian figure out that became the secret to finding the fool birds?

Answer 24

The fool birds were in a pear-shaped form so Brian could just keep his eyes wide open for flying pearshaped animals to hunt