Hatchet

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS Hatchet

Chapters 1-3

1. Where was Brian going and why?

2. What happened to the pilot?

3. What did Brian do while he was alone in the plane? What happened because of the things he did?

4. What did Brian think his two choices in the plane were? Which did he choose?

5. Describe the plane's landing.

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any

clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the

underlined words mean on the lines provided.

1. But in five minutes they had leveled off at six thousand feet and headed northwest and from then on the pilot had been silent, staring out the front, and the drone of the engine had been all that was left.

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2. Instead his eyes burned and tears came, the seeping tears that burned, but he didn't cry.

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3. Brian turned again to glance at the pilot, who had both hands on his stomach and was grimacing in

    pain, reaching for the left shoulder again as Brian watched.

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4. He stopped as a fresh spasm of pain hit him.

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5. The pilot did not move except that his head rolled on a neck impossibly loose as the plane hit a small

    bit of turbulence.

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6. This caused the plane to slow dramatically and almost seem to stop and wallow in the air.

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7. There was a great wrenching as the wings caught the pines at the side of the clearing and broke back,

    ripping back just outside the main braces.

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8. A color came that he had never seen before, a color that exploded in his mind with the pain and he was

    gone, gone from it all, spiraling out into the world, spiraling out into nothing.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

___ 1. drone                            A. tearing; slashing

___ 2. seeping                         B. violent, agitated winds

___ 3. grimacing                      C. twisting the face to show pain

___ 4. spasm                            D. roll around

___ 5. turbulence                     E. twisting; winding

___ 6. wallow                            F. a continuous low humming sound

___ 7. wrenching                      G. involuntary muscle contraction

___ 8. spiraling                         H. dripping; trickling