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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. What does Claire find when she falls off a cliff in Chapter 23?

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

4. Where are Jamie and his group taking Pollyanne in Chapter 14?

5. Where have the Indians decided to go in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the circle of stones?

3. 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?

4. Who killed the Tuscarora shaman and why?

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

6. Jamie and Claire run into Ian and Duncan Innes as they attempt to buy passage on a ship to Scotland. How is Ian related to Jamie?

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

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

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

10. Why is Roger cleaning out his father's house?

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

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

What is an obituary? Whose obituary does Roger find among his father's things? Why does Roger hide this from Brianna? What does Roger think Brianna might do with the information? What does Roger do with the information? Is it possible to change the future given the right information? What might happen to the future if someone were to travel back in time and change too many events? Does the author of this novel deal with this idea? Explain.

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