Drums of Autumn Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Diana Gabaldon
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Drums of Autumn Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Diana Gabaldon
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Brianna believe she hears the stones?
(a) Fiona.
(b) Geillis.
(c) Roger.
(d) Claire.

2. What do Jamie and William find when they arrive at the Tuscarora village in Chapter 28?
(a) It has been attacked.
(b) It has been infested with bed bugs.
(c) It has been moved.
(d) It has been abandoned.

3. How does the slave become injured in the hours before his judgment is to be carried out?
(a) Someone pushes him in the river.
(b) Someone beats him with a whip.
(c) Someone impales him on a crane.
(d) Someone runs him over with a horse and cart.

4. Why does Jamie decide to go to the Indian village with William in Chapter 26?
(a) To show William the village.
(b) To get help with the sick.
(c) To ask the Indians about their dead companion.
(d) To get some supplies.

5. Who is Mueller?
(a) The man who killed an Indian in revenge for the death by measles of his wife and child.
(b) The doctore from the local village.
(c) The preacher from the Lutheran church in Salem.
(d) Jamie's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jamie decide to build a home in the mountains in Chapter 16?

2. Who is Geillis Duncan?

3. What does the shaman show Claire to help her in her future endeavors in Chapter 20?

4. Where does Claire fear Jamie will go, leading to his death?

5. Who is Brianna Randall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Brianna and Roger go to watch the moon landing at Dr. Abernathy's house. How is Abernathy related to Brianna?

2. What is the circle of stones?

3. Who does Fiona leave alone with Roger to clean out the library?

4. For what reason does Brianna turn down Roger's offer of marriage?

5. What animal does Jamie face and kill in the mountains? To what friendship does this lead?

6. Who is the ghost in the cemetery that disturbs Jamie, Claire, and their friends as they prepare to bury Gavin?

7. Why do Jamie and Claire worry about how to dispose of the body of the measles victim?

8. Who is present at a party Jamie and Claire are invited to in Wilmington, North Carolina? What business deal does this person suggest to Jamie?

9. Who killed the Tuscarora shaman and why?

10. For what reason does Roger decide to take Brianna to Christmas Eve services at the Catholic Church?

(see the answer keys)

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