Hatchet

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS Hatchet

Chapters 18-Epilogue

1. How did Brian get into the plane?

2. What happened while Brian was trying to get into the plane? What did he do about it?

3. What happened when Brian saw the pilot?

4. How did finding the rifle change Brian?

5. Describe Brian's rescue.

6. How long was Brian alone on the lake?

7. What were the temporary and permanent changes in Brian?

8. What was life like for Brian and his parents after he was rescued?

9. What did Brian do about the Secret?

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. It was instinctive, fear more than anything else, fear of what he had seen.

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2. A first aid kit with bandages and tubes of antiseptic paste and small scissors.

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3. No speaker, no lights, just a small switch at the top and on the bottom he finally found, in small print:

    Emergency Transmitter.

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4. The pilot who landed so suddenly in the lake was a fur buyer mapping Cree trapping camps for future

    buying runs -- drawn by Brian when he unwittingly turned on the emergency transmitter and left it

    going.

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5. For a brief time the press made much of Bian and he was interviewed for several networks but the furor

   died within a few months.

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

___ 1. instinctive                      A. natural; intuitive

___ 2. antiseptic                       B. not knowing; not intended

___ 3. transmitter                      C. an electronic device that sends a signal

___ 4. unwittingly                     D. intense excitement

___ 5. furor                                 E. germ-free; disinfectant