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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 item from Brianna does Roger receive in Chapter 30?

2. Why is Claire concerned about staying in her new home over the winter in Chapter 19?

3. Who do Jamie, Claire and Fergus run into while in South Carolina?

4. How does Jamie's group make money with their gems?

5. Why are Roger and Brianna cleaning out the library in the Reverend's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Claire find when she falls off a cliff? What is significant about this find?

2. Roger Wakefield takes Brianna to a Celtic Festival. What is a Celtic Festival and why does Brianna react so poorly to the festival?

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

4. What are Claire and Jamie looking for as they separate from their friends in the mountains?

5. What items do Fiona and Roger discover offer protection when traveling through time with help from the circle of stones?

6. Why have Jamie and Claire come to witness a hanging?

7. Why is Claire worried about Jamie's determination to remain on the mountain through winter?

8. Who comes to visit Jamie at Fraser's Ridge? What is significant about the child this visitor brings with him?

9. 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?

10. Why has Farquard Campbell been called to River Run?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss irony. Define irony. How many examples of irony are present in this novel? What makes an event ironic? Is Jamie's decision to help Stephen Bonnet ironic? For what reason? List other examples of irony and what makes them ironic.

Essay Topic 2

What is a shaman? Who is the shaman who comes to visit Claire? What does this shaman give to Claire to help her protect herself and her people? What happens to the shaman? What does Claire take that is supposed to keep the shaman's spirit with her always? Does it? Do shaman have special healing powers? Does Claire use these powers to help people? Is Claire a shaman?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Jamie sell Roger to the Indians? Was this a common practice in Jamie's time? What were the Indians to do with Roger? How does Roger react to this situation? Why does Roger not escape? Why do the Indians sell Roger to the Mohawks? What do the Mohawks do to Roger? Who is Alexandre? Why do the Indians hate Alexandre? Why do they decide to put him to death? How does his death change the way the Mohawks view Roger?

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