Hatchet Chapters 8 and 9

What came into Brian's shelter in the night?

• a wolf
• the bear
• a porcupine
• a skunk

What happened to Brian as an EFFECT of this creature coming into his shelter?

• Brian was sprayed by a smell

• Quills were driven into Brian's leg

• Brian burned his leg

• Brian ran away from the shelter

What did Brian do to get rid of the creature?

• Shooed him out
• Threw a rock at it
• Threw his hatchet at it
• He just ran away

"He wiped his mouth and tried to move his leg, which had stiffened like wood" is an example of a(n)...

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

What did Brian discover will be most useful to building a fire?

• Rubbing sticks together
• his hatchet to make sparks
• using lightening from the storm
• thinking about back home and what they did to build fires

"These he threw in the shelter, went back for more, threw those in, and squatted to break and feed the hungry flames." is an example of a(n)

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

Brian tried lighting many items. Finally, he was able to make a fire by igniting___________.

• grass and twigs

• the twenty dollar bill in his pocket

• birch bark peelings

• dry leaves

Brian discovered that he also needed ________ to get the fire going.

• oil

• air

• pinecones

• grass

Building the fire took Brian________.

• only a few minutes to build after he learned the hatchet made sparks on the flint stone

• several days of hard work

• several attempts using different kinds of materials

• a few hours using only grass and twigs as kindling