Hatchet

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS Hatchet

Chapters 4-5

1. What was the part of the Secret that Brian remembered?

2. What was Brian's physical condition?

3. What new disaster happened when the sun came up? What did Brian do about it? Why did it surprise

     him so much?

4. What things did Brian think about when he woke up from his second sleep?

5. How did thinking about Mr. Perpich help Brian?

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. When he opened them again it was evening and some of the sharp pain had abated -- there were many

    dull aches -- and the crash came back to him fully.

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2. Worst was a keening throb in his head that pulsed with every beat of his heart.

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3. His forehead felt massively swollen to the touch, almost like a mound out over his eyes, and it was so

    tender that when his fingers grazed it he nearly cried.

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4. They would look for him, look for the plane. His father and mother would be frantic. They would tear

    the world apart to find him.

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5. Perpich used to drum that into them -- "You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the

    best thing you have."

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

___ 1. abated                           A. intense; piercing

___ 2. keening                         B. enormously

___ 3. massively                       C. lessened, diminished

___ 4. frantic                            D. advantage; resource

___ 5. asset                              E. highly excited with emotion or frustration