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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 the green of a strawberry plant represent in Scottish lore?

2. What illness does the person who interrupted the party in Chapter 12 suffer from?

3. Who lives in Iverness, Scotland?

4. What is Jocasta's physical disability?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the circle of stones?

3. How does Jamie disrupt the hanging as his friend his about to face the gallows?

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

5. Why do Jamie and Claire choose the site in the mountains on which they plan to make their home?

6. What does Roger find among his father's papers that he chooses to keep from Brianna? How might this item have affected Brianna's decisions?

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

8. Why do Jamie and his group board the boat Sally Ann?

9. Who comes to visit Claire and what does she show her?

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 one of the following themes in detail:

1) Love

2) Family

3) Crime

4) Time Travel.

Essay Topic 2

This novel describes what happens when one woman travels in time. Discuss how Claire's actions have affected the lives of the people around her, including the people of the past and the present. Discuss what Jamie's life would have been like if Claire had never traveled in time, what Claire changed by traveling in time, and how those changes might have changed the future. Also discuss how Brianna's birth may have caused a change in time, leading to a disruption of the future. Discuss time travel and all its inherent dangers, especially those suggested or glossed over in this novel.

Essay Topic 3

Who is Brianna Randall? What time period does Brianna live in? Where are her parents? What was Brianna's childhood like? Where was Brianna conceived? How did Brianna's stepfather treat her? Why? Why does attending a Celtic festival upset Brianna? What are her ethnic roots? How does Brianna feel about Roger? How does the reader know the depth of Brianna's feelings? Why does Brianna refuse to marry Roger?

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