Food adventures
Brian wakes up screaming for this person amid violent stomach pain.
Who is his mother?
A massive one lumbered into the raspberry patch, unafraid of Brian.
What is a bear?
Brian's hatchet carved a new "room" into this rocky overhang.
What is the ridge? (or What is a rock wall?)
Imbed
These fly off the hatchet when it ricochets off the shelter wall
What are sparks?
This prickly bush full of pink fruit drew Brian from the lakeshore.
What are raspberries?
The bear rises onto these to better study Brian before returning to eat berries.
What are hind legs?
Long poles and branches formed this barrier across his new shelter entrance.
What is a wall?
Apparent
what is open to view; visible
The harder, darker part of the rock wall that produces the hatchet sparks
What is stone?
What nickname does Brian give the berries that he finds?
What are gut cherries
Clouds of these tiny vampires swarmed Brian while seeking clay.
What are mosquitoes?
Brian wove reeds and brush into this to keep mosquitoes from his sleeping area.
What is a door?
Recede
In Brians dream, Terry points repeatedly to this while barbecuing.
What is fire?
What effect did eating so many berries have on Brian?
What is He was vomiting and had terrible diarrhea for over an hour
This Spiny intruder slithers into Brian's shelter at night in chapter 8.
What is a porcupine?
Seeing his battered reflection in the lake, Brian cries the "wasted tears."
What are self pity tears?
Crude
what is raw, unprepared state
What literary tool is used with the description "tiny pieces of the sun?
What is imagery?
Evaluate Brians decision to eat the gut cherries again in moderation after his illness. Is this a sign of learning from mistakes, or risky optimism? Use cause and effect reasoning from the test to support your view.
Answers will vary
Brian runs this far toward shelter before stopping and realizing the bear meant no harm.
What is fifty yards?
In Chapter 7, this weather forces Brian back into his shelter, where he stays "dry and snug".
What is rain?
Indicate
what is to point out; to be a sign of
Paulsen describes the sparks in Chapter 8 as flying "like tiny pieces of the sun." How does this vivid imagery connect to Brian's dream of Terry and the fire?
Terry's barbecue represents controlled, man-made fire (using charcoal, lighter fluid, matches)--a civilized, familiar version of warmth and sustenance.