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Vocabulary
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These are two basic needs that Brian needs.
What is food and shelter?
100
Brian gets sick in the middle of night because of these.
What are gut cherries?
100
This part of a porcupine quill makes it more painful to pull out than when it goes in.
What is the barb?
100
This vocabulary word means easily catches fire.
What is flammable?
100
A synonym for this vocabulary word is stomach.
What is abdomen?
200
Brian keeps this in sight when he goes looking for food.
What is the lake?
200
Brian feeling sorry for himself and his situation is known as this.
What is self-pity?
200
Brian was attacked by this animal.
What is a porcupine?
200
This vocabulary word describes the different materials that Brian used to try and start the fire.
What is tinder?
200
This vocabulary word is used to describe how the rock was turned into sand.
What is pulverize?
300
Brian uses this as a shelter.
What is an overhang?
300
After Brian encounters this animal in the raspberry bush, he calms himself down by saying, "It didn't want you. It wanted the raspberries."
What is the black bear?
300
Brian dreams about his dad and Terry showing him this.
What is fire?
300
Fires need fuel and this to burn.
What is oxygen?
300
This vocabulary word means to be regretful or sorrowful.
What is rueful?
400
Brian being curious is an example of these.
What are character traits?
400
The following quote is an example of this type of figurative language. "...the day caught up with him..."
What is an idiom?
400
Feeling sorry for yourself doesn't work is what Brian considers this.
What is the most important survival rule?
400
This vocabulary word describes Brian's frustration when it took him most of the day to create the fire.
What is exasperation?
400
An antonym for this vocabulary word is increase.
What is recede?
500
The memory of Brian's outing with Terry is considered this.
What is a flashback?
500
Brian thinks of this as he is falling back to sleep after being sick for an hour.
What is the Secret?
500
The following statement is an example of this. Brian threw his hatchet and kicked because of the noise by his feet.
What is cause and effect?
500
Brian's mood changes at the end of the chapter when he thinks about whether his mother is with this person.
Who is the blond-haired man? --OR-- Who is the mystery man? --OR-- Who is the Secret man?
500
This vocabulary word is used to describe how Brian creates the spark nest.
What is painstaking? --OR-- What is painstakingly?