Hatchet

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS Hatchet

Chapters 16-17

1. Which animal attacked Brian? What happened to him?

2. What happened as a result of the tornado?

3. Brian was impatient to begin the plane project when he remembered the order in which he had learned

    to do things. What was the order?

4. What action did Brian take to get to the plane?

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. Not accurately -- he never got really good with it -- but fly correctly so that if a rabbit or a

foolbird sat in one place long enough, close enough, had he had enough arrows, he could hit it.

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2. He slowed his movements and stood slowly, without stretching unduly, and went to the lake for a drink.

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3. He tried wedging them together, crossing them over each other -- nothing seemed to work. And he

    needed a stable platform to get the job done.

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4. And for a moment he was stymied. He had no rope, only the bowstring and the other cut shoestring in

    his tennis shoes -- which were by now looking close to dead, his toes showing at the tops.

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

___ 1. accurately                                A. excessively

___ 2. unduly                                     B. thwarted; stumped

___ 3. stable                                      C. correctly

___ 4. stymied                                    D. firm, steady