Chapters 7, 8, 9

Chapters SEVEN and EIGHT

1. What are the stages of a person dying of thirst?

2. What is Ben's greatest fear?

3. How does Ben know he can't survive much longer?

4. Why does Ben say that he has been "cheated, he had been robbed" (p.99)?

5. What does Ben discover at the end of the tunnel? Why is this so important?

Chapter NINE

1. What usually happens when people dying of thirst are rescued? Why is this strange?

2. Describe the lake Ben found.

3. Why would Ben feel hunger now and not earlier?

4. Why would the light at the ends of the tunnel be different now?

5. What is the importance of the slingshot?

6. Where did Ben get the buckshot?

7. How does Ben plan to cook his prey next time?

Gambel’s quail