OXFORD BOOKWORMS COMPREHENSION TEST

Stage 1
Pocahontas

1 Put the following events in the right 3 Who said this? Who did they say it to?
order. Number them 1–15. Pocahontas, John Rolfe, John Smith,
Queen Anne, Powhatan.
a ___ Argall takes Pocahontas to
Jamestown. a ‘Don’t kill this man. Give him to me.’
b ___ Pocahontas meets King James. ............... to ...............
c ___ Pocahontas marries John Rolfe. b ‘What is a compass for?’
d ___ The English arrive in Virginia. ............... to ...............
e ___ Smith goes to Powhatan’s village. c ‘I’m not the right husband for you.’
f ___ The English build walls around ............... to ...............
Jamestown. d ‘I would very much like to be your wife.’
g ___ Pocahontas dies. ............... to ...............
h ___ Smith returns to England. e ‘I have a letter about you.’
i ___ The English build Jamestown. ............... to ...............
j ___ John Rolfe returns to Virginia. 20 marks
k ___ Smith has an accident with some
gunpowder. 4 Who? Match a number from A with a
l ___ Pocahontas goes to England. letter from B to make complete
m ___ Smith goes back to Jamestown with sentences.
Pocahontas and Opekankanu. A
n ___ Pocahontas meets John Smith in 1 ___ The Indians 6 ___ Rolfe
England. 2 ___ Smith 7 ___ Pocahontas
o ___ Powhatan gives Smith to Pocahontas. 3 ___ Powhatan 8 ___ King James
30 marks 4 ___ Opekankanu 9 ___ Queen Anne
5 ___ Pocahontas 10 ___ John Rolfe
2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a ___ Indian men had hair on their faces. B
b ___ John Smith had blue eyes. a married an Englishwoman in Virginia.
c ___ Powhatan wanted guns. b wanted to be friendly but careful.
d ___ John Smith was much older than c thought that Pocahontas was the most
Pocahontas. beautiful woman in Jamestown.
e ___ John Smith left a letter for Pocahontas d gave food to the Englishmen.
when he went to England. e wanted to kill all the English.
f ___ Pocahontas and John Rolfe had a son. f was the king of all the Algonquin Indians.
g ___ People in London were afraid of g learnt about England and the English.
Pocahontas. h was very interested in Jamestown.
h ___ Pochontas thought that John Smith i thought that London was noisy and exciting.
was dead. j had a letter from John Smith.
i ___ Pocahontas lived in England for many 30 marks
years.
j ___ Pocahontas died in England.
10 marks

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS COMPREHENSION TEST
Stage 1
Pocahontas

5 Match the place with the description.

Gravesend, London, the church in
Jamestown, Werowocomoco,
Jamestown.
a An English town in Virginia. ...............
b Pocahontas’ village. ...............
c The place where the King and Queen of
England lived. ...............
d The place where Pocahontas died ...............
e The place where Pocahontas married John
Rolfe. ...............
10 marks

Total marks

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS COMPREHENSION TEST ANSWERS
Stage 1
Pocahontas

1 5
a 9 a Jamestown
b 12 b Werowocomoco
c 10 c London
d 1 d Gravesend
e 4 e the church in Jamestown
f 3
g 14
h 8
i 2
j 15
k 7
l 11
m 6
n 13
o 5

2
a F
b T
c T
d T
e F
f T
g F
h T
i F
j T

3
a Pocahontas, Powhatan
b Pocahontas, John Smith
c John Smith, Pocahontas
d Pocahontas, John Rolfe
e Queen Anne, Pocahontas

4
1 d
2 b
3 f
4 e
5 g or i
6 a or c
7 g or i
8 h
9 j
10 a or c

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
Stage 1
Pocahontas

SETTING 8 The Indians tried to talk to the Englishmen,

and gave them _____.
Choose the best answer. a knives
1 In _____ 1607 three ships left England. b pictures
a December c beads
b January d food
c February
9 The Englishmen needed _____ and
d March
vegetables for winter.
2 There were a hundred and fifty _____ on the a flowers
ships. b trees
a dogs c water
b children d corn
c horses
10 The Indians were very afraid of _____.
d men
a ships
3 They wanted to find _____ in the west. b corn
a old forests c guns
b a new world d walls
c new flowers
20 marks
d tall trees
4 After four long months at sea they were
CHARACTERS
tired, ill and _____.
a happy Choose the best answer.
b hungry 11 The King of England was called _____.
c afraid a John
d pleased b James
5 Virginia was beautiful, with rivers, c William
and _____, and forests. d Christopher
a vegetables 12 Powhatan was _____ of the Algonquin
b corn Indians.
c flowers a chief
d houses b leader
6 When the Englishmen came, the Algonquin c king
Indians of Virginia were _____. d an enemy
a happy 13 Powhatan was the _____ of Pocahontas.
b afraid a friend
c ill b brother
d hungry c enemy
7 The English began to build a town d father
called _____. 14 Opekankanu was Powhatan’s _____.
a Edwardtown a brother
b Johntown b father
c Jamestown c enemy
d Kingtown d friend

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
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Pocahontas

15 John Smith was not very tall, and he 22 ‘The men must always be ready; they must
had _____. carry their guns with them. The Indians tried
a brown eyes to kill you because they weren’t afraid of
b hair on his face you.’
c no hair on his face a Pocahontas
d green eyes b Edward Wingfield
c John Smith
16 An Indian arrow hit John Smith’s _____.
d Christopher Newport
a eye
b head 23 ‘What are white men, father? Are they white
c arm because they are ill?’
d leg a Powhatan
b John Smith
17 _____ wanted to kill John Smith with a
c Pocahontas
big stick.
d Opekankanu
a Pocahontas
b Opekankanu 24 ‘These Englishmen cannot live here. They
c Powhatan are taking our land and killing our people
d Edward Wingfield with their guns.’
a Opekankanu
18 Pocahontas wanted _____ for a husband.
b Pocahontas
a John Smith
c Powhatan
b Opekankanu
d Edward Wingfield
c Edward Wingfield
d Christopher Newport 25 ‘What happened? Where’s the tree?’
a John Smith
19 John Smith went _____ because he was ill.
b Pocahontas
a to see Pocahontas
c Opekankanu
b to the forest
d Christopher Newport
c to Jamestown
d home to England 26 ‘But we want to be your friends, and friends
are better than guns.’
20 Pocahontas married John Rolfe in the
a Pocahontas
church in _____.
b Powhatan
a Jamestown
c Edward Wingfield
b Werowocomoco
d John Smith
c Gravesend
d London 27 ‘Do you have a wife, John Smith?’
a Pocahontas
20 marks
b Powhatan
c Christopher Newport
DIALOGUE d Edward Wingfield
Who said this? 28 ‘What a good friend you are, Pocahontas.
21 ‘The fields are more important than the How can I thank you?’
houses.’ a John Smith
a John Smith b Powhatan
b Christopher Newport c John Rolfe
c Powhatan d Opekankanu
d Edward Wingfield

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
Stage 1
Pocahontas

29 ‘You must bring Pocahontas on to my ship, 37 not a friend; a person who hates you
and leave her there.’ a queen
a Samuel Argall b leader
b Iapassus c chief
c John Smith d enemy
d Powhatan
38 the most important man in an Indian village
30 ‘The English are my people now.’ a king
a John Smith b chief
b Pocahontas c queen
c Samuel Argall d enemy
d Edward Wingfield
39 to take somebody as your husband or wife
20 marks a marry
b queen
VOCABULARY c sail
d try
Choose the best answer.
40 to work hard to do something
31 the most important man in a country a fight
a chief b try
b king c build
c hostage d lock
d leader
20 marks
32 to put small plants in the ground
a fever
PLOT
b marry
c sow Choose the best answer.
d try
41 John Smith went _____ with nine men to
33 to hit, hurt, or try to kill someone find some food for Christmas.
a fight a in the forest
b sow b to England
c enemy c up the river
d lock d to the fields
34 you feel this when something new or sudden 42 John Smith gave Opekankanu some _____
happens to take to Powhatan.
a unhappy a gunpowder
b enemy b corn
c sail c stones
d surprise d trees
35 bottles and windows are made of this 43 In the winter John Smith went to Powhatan
a glass to ask for more _____.
b sow a guns
c chief b corn
d gunpowder c ships
c beads
36 when you are ill with a very hot head and
body 44 The Englishmen took _____ as a hostage.
a sadly a Pocahontas
b unhappy b Iapassus
c surprise c Powhatan
d fever d Opekankanu

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Stage 1
Pocahontas

45 Powhatan wanted his _____ more than he

wanted his daughter.
a guns
b forest
c ships
d corn
46 Pocahontas went to England in _____.
a 1616
b 1716
c 1816
d 1916
47 Queen Anne had a letter about Pocahontas
from _____.
a Powhatan
b King James
c John Rolfe
d John Smith
48 Pocahontas and John Rolfe had a son
called _____.
a John
b James
c Thomas
d Edward
49 For eight years Pocahontas heard nothing
from _____.
a John Smith
b John Rolfe
c Powhatan
d Opekankanu
50 Pocahontas died in _____.
a London
b Virginia
c Gravesend
d Jamestown
20 marks

Total marks

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST ANSWERS
Stage 1
Pocahontas

SETTING PLOT
1 b 41 c
2 d 42 a
3 b 43 b
4 b 44 a
5 c 45 a
6 b 46 a
7 c 47 d
8 d 48 c
9 d 49 a
10 c 50 c

CHARACTERS
11 b
12 c
13 d
14 a
15 b
16 d
17 b
18 a
19 d
20 a

DIALOGUE
21 d
22 c
23 c
24 a
25 b
26 d
27 a
28 a
29 a
30 b

VOCABULARY
31 b
32 c
33 a
34 d
35 a
36 d
37 d
38 b
39 a
40 b

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS
Stage 1
Pocahontas
BEFORE READING
page 44
1 will find out as they read that the answers are:
1 No
2 Yes
3 No
4 Yes
5 Yes
6 Yes
7 No
2 Englishmen had only a hundred and fifty
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They
will find out as they read that the answers are:
1 Pocahontas marries another Englishman.
2 The Indians don’t kill John Smith.
3 The English and the Indians are enemies.
4 John Smith goes back to England.
5 Pocahontas visits England.
6 Pocahontas dies when she is still young.
7 The story has an unhappy ending.
WHILE READING
Chapter 1
There are 13 possible sentences:
 The Indians had corn.
 The Indians wanted knives / guns / beads /
pictures.
 The Englishmen had knives / ships / guns /
beads / pictures.
 The Englishmen wanted corn.
 The Englishmen built a town / houses.
Chapters 2 and 3
1 Powhatan to Pocahontas
2 John Smith to Powhatan
3 Opekankanu to Powhatan
4 Pocahontas to Powhatan
5 Pocahontas to Opekankanu
6 Opekankanu to John Smith
7 John Smith to Opekankanu
8 Powhatan to Pocahontas
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BOOK ACTIVITY ANSWERS
Before reading Chapter 4
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They
1 No
2 Pocahontas tells John Smith that she wants
him for her husband, but he says that she is
only a child. After that, she doesn’t visit him
for two months.
Chapter 4
1 Powhatan had thousands of men. / The
men.
2 Pocahontas often visited Jamestown.
3 John Smith taught Pocahontas many new
things.
4 To Pocahontas, John Smith was the most
exciting man in the world.
5 Pocahontas wanted John Smith for her
husband.
6 Pocahontas didn’t visit John Smith for two
months. / Pocahontas thought about John
Smith every day.
Chapter 5
1 He wanted a big English house with
windows of glass, and he wanted some
guns.
2 He felt very angry.
3 Out of the forest.
4 Because John Smith had his gun in
Opekankanu’s face, and he could kill
Opekankanu before an arrow could kill him.
5 Because there was often fighting between
the English and the Indians.
6 The Englishmen wanted the Indians’ corn,
and the Indians wanted the Englishmen’s
guns.
7 Five hundred.
8 Because he had a bad accident with some
gunpowder, and was very ill.
9 She went away into the forest and cried for
a long time.
OXFORD BOOKWORMS BOOK ACTIVITY ANSWERS
Stage 1
Pocahontas

Before reading Chapter 6 1 Powhatan: Run to John Smith and put your
arms over his head, before
Encourage speculation but do not tell students
Opekankanu’s stick comes
the answer. They will find out as they read that
down.
the answer is number 2.
4 Pocahontas: And then do I take John Smith
away?
Chapter 6 9 Powhatan: No, first you must ask for his life.
1 What …? When they found them in the Say, ‘Father – don’t kill this
forest or by the river, they killed them and man!’ Can you do this for me?
took their guns. 2 Pocahontas: Yes, I can. But why must I do
2 Why …? Because they wanted Powhatan to this, father? You are the King.
stop fighting them, and to give them back You can say ‘no’ to
their guns. Opekankanu.
3 What …? His guns. 5 Powhatan: Of course I can say ‘no’. But I
4 Who …? The Englishwomen of Jamestown. want John Smith to learn
5 Who …? An Englishman called John Rolfe. something.
6 Why …? Because she was the most 10 Pocahontas: Learn what, father?
beautiful and interesting woman in 7 Powhatan: He must learn that I am the King
Jamestown, and he loved her. in this country. And a King can
give life, or he can take it away.
Chapter 7
1 T 2
2 F: Everybody in London wanted to be Words across: corn, field, glass, arrow, bird,
Pocahontas’ friend. queen, gun, finger, vegetables
3 F: Queen Anne told Pocahontas that John Words down: compass, stone, bow, walls, fish,
Smith was alive. chief, bead, church, world
4 T
5 F: She was not happy when John Smith
came to see her.
6 T
7 F: Pocahontas died when she was a young
woman.
8 T

AFTER READING
1
If students need help with this, encourage them 1 The sentence is: ‘My father likes his guns
to look at the links in the language. better than his daughter.’
3 Powhatan: Listen, Pocahontas. When the 2 Pocahontas.
men bring the Englishman in 3 In Jamestown, with her English friends.
front of me and put his head on 4 She stayed in the houses of her English
the stone, you must watch friends, played with their children, and spoke
Opekankanu. English all the time.
8 Pocahontas: Do I speak to Opekankanu?
11 Powhatan: No, say nothing. Just watch him.
But when he walks to the stone
with his stick, get ready to run.
6 Pocahontas: Run? Run where, father?

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS BOOK ACTIVITY ANSWERS
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Pocahontas

3
The picture goes on page 39.
1 Pocahontas, her little son Thomas, and
John Smith.
2 In London, in England.
3 Because she loved John Smith once, but
now they could not be friends.
Possible captions would be lines from the text on
page 39, for example:
 ‘Now I have a son and a husband,’
Pocahontas said.
 ‘You and I cannot be friends,’ Pocahontas
said sadly. ‘Goodbye, John Smith.’
 ‘Goodbye, Pocahontas,’ said John Smith.
Students may wish to think of something more
imaginative, such as:
 The last goodbye for John Smith and
Pocahontas.

4
Dear King James and Queen Anne
My friends tell me that Pocahontas is in London.
I would like to see her very much. We were
friends in Virginia. Her father’s brother wanted to
kill me, but Pocahontas stopped him. She often
came to Jamestown, and she helped the English
a lot in those early days.
She was a little girl then. Does she remember
me now?
Perhaps I can see her in London. Please tell her
about me, and say hello to her from me.
John Smith

5
Open answers.

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