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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 is Roger's profession?

2. Why does Roger want to go to the past in Chapter 31?

3. What does the red of a strawberry represent in Scottish lore?

4. Who contracts the measles as Claire's first patient dies in Chapter 26?

5. Why does Roger take Brianna to Christmas Eve church services in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes Jamie and Claire to have to spend the night alone in the open on a winter night?

3. Why does Claire dislike Jamie's friend, Lord John Grey?

4. The narration moves to 1969 where Brianna Randall currently lives. How is Brianna Randall related to Jamie and Claire?

5. What crime do Jamie and Claire come across while talking over their future prospects during a walk at the mills?

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

7. Who killed the Tuscarora shaman and why?

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

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

10. What item does Fiona have that helps her and Roger figure out how to use the circle of stones to travel through time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following in detail:

1) Moon walk

2) Celtic Festival

3) Mount Helicon.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following relationships from this novel:

1) Claire and Jamie

2) Claire and Brianna

3) Brianna and Roger

4) Brianna and Jamie

5) Roger and Jamie.

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