How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it. Fiver, however, came over to where Blackberry was lying against the stem of a blackthorn in the hedge.
"You saved Pipkin and me, didn't you?" he said. "I don't think Pipkin's got any idea what really happened; but I have.""I admit it was a good idea," replied Blackberry. "Let's remember it. It might come in handy again sometime." (8.50-2)
The only two rabbits who really understand the raft are Blackberry and Fiver. And these are the only two rabbits who seem to have memory. The extra bonus comes when Blackberry tells Fiver that floating might come in handy later—which it does when they escape from Efrafa. It's kind of a test of how clever readers are. (It's also what we call foreshadowing.)
Quote #5
It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow. It did not occur to him that it was following the track of a mole, in the hope of killing it with a blow of its beak and then pulling it out of its shallow run. If he had realized this, he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a "Not-hawk"—that is, anything from a wren to a pheasant—and continued on his way up the slope. (9.3)
We spend so much of our time in this book hearing about how clever rabbits are that we might miss those moments when they really aren't all that smart. Usually rabbits are afraid of the new, even when they shouldn't be. But here, we see Hazel not be afraid of something new, when maybe he should be. Here's a question that might be worth extra credit: When does Hazel act dumb (aside from this moment)?
Quote #6
"Why do the men come, do you suppose?" asked Fiver.
"Who knows why men do anything? They may drive cows or sheep in the fields, or cut wood in the copses. What does it matter? I'd rather dodge a man than a stoat or a fox." (12.16-7)
Fiver is nervous and curious about why men come to the field. (The answer we find out later is that the man comes to trap and kill rabbits.) But Bigwig is all like "whatever, dude, humans are weird, let's eat." Bigwig isn't the cleverest rabbit in the bunch (though he'll have to be clever later to get out of Efrafa). Bigwig doesn't really care about new things, but Fiver is clever enough to worry about those new things.