Comprehension Check: Brian's Winter Chapter 1

Instructions

Read each question carefully and select the best answer. Choose the one answer that best answers the question based on what you read in Chapter 1. 

You may refer back to the chapter to help you with your answers.

Good luck!

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What does Brian notice about the weather in the wilderness at the start of Chapter 1?

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Which narrative point of view is used in Brian’s Winter?

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What is the main conflict introduced in Chapter 1?

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What type of conflict does Brian face in Chapter 1?

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How does Brian feel about his survival skills at the start of the chapter?

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What is Brian's coping strategy when he feels lonely in the wilderness?

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What does the word “ration” most closely mean as used in this sentence from Chapter 1: "He tried to ration the food out but found it impossible, and within two weeks he had eaten it all"?

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What does the word “elude” most closely mean as used in this excerpt from the end of the chapter: "He snuggled down into the bag and felt glad for its warmth, and the thought that this was the first time he’d felt glad for heat this season—that it was growing colder—somehow eluded him. He closed his eyes and went to sleep like a baby"?

Read the following excerpt from Chapter 1 to answer Question 9.

All sounds, any movement went into him, filled his eyes, ears, mind so that he became part of it, and it was then that he noted the change. 

A new coolness, a touch, a soft kiss on his cheek. It was the same air, the same sun, the same morning, but it was different, so changed that he stopped and raised his hand to his cheek and touched where the coolness had brushed him.

“Why is it different?” he whispered. “What smell . . .” 

But it wasn’t a smell so much as a feeling, a newness in the air, a chill. There and gone, a brush of new-cool air on his cheek, and he should have known what it meant

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What is the tone of this excerpt from Chapter 1?

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What does Brian notice about the weather in the wilderness at the start of Chapter 1?

Which narrative point of view is used in Brian’s Winter?

What is the main conflict introduced in Chapter 1?

What type of conflict does Brian face in Chapter 1?

How does Brian feel about his survival skills at the start of the chapter?

What is Brian's coping strategy when he feels lonely in the wilderness?

What does the word “ration” most closely mean as used in this sentence from Chapter 1: "He tried to ration the food out but found it impossible, and within two weeks he had eaten it all"?

What is the tone of this excerpt from Chapter 1?

Which of the following is the best summary of Chapter 1 of Brian's Winter?