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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Samuel notice about the natives' food customs in the Warraskoyack village?
(a) The food is full of mealworms.
(b) They have no rations.
(c) They eat dogs.
(d) He is allergic to their food.

2. What historically happened to Pocahontas in 1613?
(a) She was kidnapped by the English.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She killed her father.
(d) She had a baby.

3. What is Samuel's impression of Powhatan when he meets them?
(a) He thinks he is kind and welcoming.
(b) He thinks he is fat and ugly.
(c) He thinks he is frail and weak.
(d) He thinks he is tall and strong.

4. Who is Kainta?
(a) Powhatan's son.
(b) A traitorous native.
(c) An orphaned native.
(d) Chief Sasenticum's son.

5. What does Chief Sasenticum tell Captain Smith in Chapter 22?
(a) Powhatan wants to slit the English men's throats.
(b) Pocahontas loves him.
(c) Powhatan is very ill.
(d) Pocahontas is a spy.

6. What is Ann Burras' mistress like?
(a) She is elderly and and frail.
(b) She is fat and demanding.
(c) She is clever and manipulative.
(d) She is beautiful.

7. What does Captain Smith tell Samuel before leaving to return to England?
(a) He hopes that Samuel can someday come back to England.
(b) He regrets ever having made the journey.
(c) He will return to James Town.
(d) He thinks he will die on the return trip to England.

8. What does Captain Newport take when he leaves in December in Chapter 22?
(a) The women.
(b) Chief Powhatan.
(c) Pocahontas.
(d) Food stores.

9. Why do Richard, Henry, Nathaniel, and Abram arrive at the Warraskoyack village?
(a) Their camp caught on fire.
(b) A bear has killed many of their crew.
(c) The rats got into their food.
(d) The seek herbal medicine.

10. What does King James want to happen to Chief Powhatan?
(a) He wants him sent as a prisoner to England.
(b) He wants him executed at the gallows.
(c) He wants to crown him as a prince.
(d) He wants to skin him alive.

11. Where will Samuel go for the winter in Chapter 25?
(a) To live with Powhatan.
(b) Point Comfort.
(c) To the Warraskoyack village.
(d) Back to England.

12. What is Powhatan's reply to the English mission in Chapter 21?
(a) He is grateful to King James, and wants to travel to England.
(b) He is too weak to accept the gifts.
(c) He says that he is the king of this land, and that Captain Newport must come to him.
(d) He is at first suspicious, but then grateful.

13. With what punishment does Master Archer threaten Captain Smith?
(a) A knife in the heart.
(b) A musket shot.
(c) An arrow through the heart.
(d) The gallows.

14. What does Pocahontas challenge the boys to imitate?
(a) Cooking chicken over a fire.
(b) A cartwheel.
(c) Hitting a tree with a bow and arrow.
(d) Braiding her hair.

15. Why is Samuel pardoned in Chapter 27?
(a) Ann Burras dies before she can charge him.
(b) Ann Burras intervenes.
(c) Captain Davies wants Samuel as his apprentice.
(d) Nathaniel takes the blame.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did a fire start in the camp in Chapter 17?

2. What is the native boy's opinion of the settlement in Chapter 17?

3. Where did the real Pocahontas die?

4. How does Samuel react to the women who arrive in Chapter 19?

5. What does Samuel think about the mission to crown Powhatan?

(see the answer keys)

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