Roanoke ReadWorks Article

Why did John White leave the colony at Roanoke in 1587?

• He went to investigate Croatoan

• He returned to England for supplies

• He went to go found the Jamestown Colony

• He left to look for his daughter and granddaughter

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Why does the author describe things that White found missing at Roanoke?

• to describe how terrible the weather was at Roanoke

• to show how mysteriously the colonists had disappeared

• to argue that John White had landed in the wrong place

• to warn the reader against trying to start a colony

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Why is Roanoke called the Lost Colony?

• When John White returned from England, he was unable to find any of the colonists

• The colonists had suffered a tough winter and had lost many people to disease

• When John White returned, he found the colonists wandering around lost

• England lost the colony when the settlers declared their independence

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Read the following sentences: “But John White was delayed in England. He could not return until 1590.”The word delayed means

• forced to do something later than planned

• had a job taken away from him

• arrested and put on trial for a crime

• lost and disappeared without a trace

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This passage is mostly about

• how the colony of Roanoke disappeared

• the first war between Europeans and Native Americans

• how Roanoke colonists got along with native people

• why European colonies were started in the Americas

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