Pocahontas: Her Life & Legend

Which detail explains how the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe affected the English and the Powhatan?

• Pocahontas agreed to marry Rolfe.

• The Powhatans and the English became friendly again.

• Pocahontas was baptized with the name Rebecca.

• Historians don’t know whether Pocahontas loved Rolfe.

Which detail from the text explains why we have little information about Pocahontas?

• Pocahontas’s story has been told for centuries.

• No one who lived then is alive today.

• Pocahontas has been the subject of many books and movies.

• Pocahontas did not keep a written record of her life.

Which of the following was true about Pocahontas when John Smith arrived in America?

• She was a Powhatan chief.

• She was a young girl.

• She was not yet born.

• She was a married woman.

What best describes the relationship between the English colonists and the Powhatan?

• It was sometimes friendly and sometimes full of conflict.

• It was peaceful and based on friendship.

• It was constantly full of conflict.

• It never changed.

The image of Pocahontas’s marriage to John Rolfe on page 20 portrays the event as a joyous celebration. What evidence supports this interpretation?

• Pocahontas wrote about it in a journal.

• Artists who made the painting attended the ceremony.

• The artist re-created it from artifacts from the event.

• There is no evidence to support this opinion about the image.

Information about the past that is preserved by storytelling is _____.

• a legend

• fiction

• oral history

• a story