Pocahontas Comprehension Test 1
  • 1. What animal did Pocahontas and Nantaquas find caught in a snare?
A) rabbit
B) snake
C) bear cub
D) eagle
  • 2. Why did Nantaquas tell Pocahontas that she could never hunt with him again?
A) She was better at hunting than Nantaquas.
B) She talked and scared the birds.
C) She let the animal go that he found in the snare.
D) She made too much noise as she walked in the woods.
  • 3. What current state is the setting for this book?
A) Florida
B) Maryland
C) Virginia
D) South Carolina
  • 4. What name did the natives call "guns"?
A) firesticks
B) lightning rods
C) red, hot clubs
D) flaming torches
  • 5. What did Pocahontas want to make from the bear skin that the natives might be able to get on their hunt?
A) a necklace
B) a bed
C) a dress
D) a toy rattle
  • 6. What did the settlers name their new village?
A) Johnsborough
B) Jamestown
C) King James Village
D) Powhatan's Place
  • 7. Who was the leader of the English settlement?
A) John Rolfe
B) Captain Argall
C) John Smith
D) Captain Newport
  • 8. Whad did Hapsis say that Pocahontas could do to help John Smith?
A) Cry in front of the people at the feast
B) Take him to another Indian village
C) Tell her father she would marry John Smith
D) Ask for him to be given to her
  • 9. What did the natives use to dry their hands?
A) birch bark
B) feathers
C) rabbit skins
D) leaves
  • 10. What did John Smith give to the Indians when they went into the English village that made them upset?
A) some old English clothes
B) worthless beads
C) a statue of King James
D) a heavy cannon
  • 11. What foods did Pocahontas take to John Smith's village?
A) corn and beans
B) milk and honey
C) wheat and barley
D) fish and turkeys
  • 12. What did Pocahontas find strange about the village of the English?
A) They sang songs about King James all during the day.
B) There houses were filled with small pictures of King James.
C) There were no women or children.
D) Their roads were paced with stones.
  • 13. What did the settlers think was "gold"?
A) a yellow jessamine flower
B) the corn
C) the sand
D) Indian beads
  • 14. John Smith said he would let the prisoners go if what happened?
A) John Smith could become an Indian warrior in their tribe.
B) Pocahontas came to their village to get them.
C) Powhatan gave him their land.
D) The natives came back to London with them.
  • 15. Why did the English take the natives as prisoners?
A) They fired arrows at the English village.
B) They were not truthful about having gold.
C) They tried to steal the guns and tools of the English.
D) The natives sank one of the large English ships.
  • 16. What gift of friendship did Captain Newport give to King Powhatan?
A) a wool blanket
B) a faithful servant
C) a wooden bed
D) a crystal bowl
  • 17. What terrible event occurred in the English village?
A) the men ate poisonous berries
B) a chimney spark started a fire
C) the settlers had no clean water to drink
D) a disease spread through Jamestown
  • 18. What promise did John Smith make to Pocahontas?
A) to give her clothes from England
B) to take her to England with him
C) to teach her how to write in English
D) to never leave her village
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