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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brianna see on the hand of a stranger in Chapter 41?

2. Why does Brianna blackmail her new suitor in Chapter 59?

3. What does Jamie encourage Brianna to do in Chapter 50 when she becomes concerned about Roger's safety?

4. What does Jamie wonder about Brianna's baby at its birth in Chapter 64?

5. Who has asked Jocasta to marry him in Chapter 71?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brianna give her son the last name Mackenzie?

2. Why does Jocasta want Brianna to find a man to marry?

3. What happens when Alexandre is put to death by the Mohawks?

4. What does Brianna learn about Lord John Grey that she uses to force him to become her fiance?

5. Why does Brianna buy the servant she buys?

6. Whose life does Roger place his own life on the line for?

7. Why do the Mohawks want to keep Alexandre captive?

8. Where does Brianna go for the duration of her pregnancy?

9. Who attacks Lord John Grey? For what reason?

10. What does Jamie admit he has done to Roger? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following settings in detail:

1) Inverness, Scotland--both in the past and present

2) Boston, Massachusetts

3) Fraser's Ridge

4) River Run.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Stephen Bonnet? Why does Jamie help him escape hanging? When does Jamie meet Bonnet next? How does Bonnet show gratitude? Why does Brianna arrange to meet with Bonnet alone? What happens at this meeting? How does this encounter change Brianna's life? What does Brianna choose to do with her new future? What choice does Roger make in regard to Brianna's trauma?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Ian? How is he related to Jamie? What is his role in the novel? How does he illustrate the theme of coming of age? In what time period does he live? How does he learn to become a man? What selfless act causes the reader to see he has reached full maturity? Is this a safe thing Ian has done? Will Ian appear in a later addition of the series? How does the reader know this?

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