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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kainta teach Samuel?
(a) How to grow vegetables successfully.
(b) How to cook hominy.
(c) How to do a native dance.
(d) How to make bows and arrows.

2. What is the historical reason that the travelers cannot travel between James Town and Point Comfort?
(a) The river turned to ice.
(b) The natives set an ambush.
(c) There was a bear attacking travelers.
(d) The ships caught on fire.

3. How is the fire extinguished in Chapter 17?
(a) Reverend Hunt prays for it to stop.
(b) The settlers pass buckets from the river.
(c) It starts to rain.
(d) The natives bring water.

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

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

6. What happens to Captain Ratcliffe at the end of the novel?
(a) He was shot with his own musket.
(b) He was skinned alive.
(c) He was tortured to death.
(d) He was drowned.

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

8. Who is the new boy brought by Captain Newport in Chapter 17?
(a) Bartholomew Gosnold.
(b) Thomas Savage.
(c) Kainta.
(d) Thomas Gates.

9. What message do the natives bring about Chief Powhatan in Chapter 22?
(a) He has died.
(b) He would like to go to England.
(c) He has decided he is ready to trade.
(d) He would like to marry an English woman.

10. Why does Reverend Hunt apprehend Samuel in Chapter 16?
(a) Samuel attacks Master Archer.
(b) Samuel steaks Captain Smith's sword.
(c) Samuel tries to punch Richard.
(d) Samuel tries to escape.

11. What does Pocahontas do when visiting the settlers in Chapter 17?
(a) She tries to steal a musket.
(b) She makes fun of the settlers' poor harvest.
(c) She is in awe of the settlers' ships.
(d) She challenges the boys to a foot race.

12. Where does Samuel live at Point Comfort at the end of the novel?
(a) In his own tent.
(b) With Ann and John Laydon.
(c) With Nathaniel.
(d) With Captain Davies.

13. 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 will return to James Town.
(c) He thinks he will die on the return trip to England.
(d) He regrets ever having made the journey.

14. What does Samuel tell Ann Laydon in Chapter 25?
(a) He thinks she should join him at Warraskoyack village.
(b) He thinks she should return to England.
(c) There is no safety in James Town.
(d) He loves her.

15. Where does Samuel hide what he has stolen in Chapter 26?
(a) In Nathaniel's tent.
(b) In his pcoket.
(c) In a cave in the woods.
(d) In a bay secluded from the settlement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Powhatan die?

3. What does Samuel contribute to the communal stew in Chapter 22?

4. Who became ruler when Powhatan died?

5. What does Samuel learn when he turns to the camp in Chapter 23?

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