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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 Mount Helicon?

2. What is given to Claire from this deceased person in Chapter 27?

3. Why did Brianna send Roger a package at Oxford during the summer term in Chapter 30?

4. Who is murdered in the village in Chapter 27?

5. What does Fergus do in the pub that helps him earn a few extra dollars?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. For what reason do Jamie and Claire decide to leave River Run?

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

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

6. What does Brianna send to Roger that convinces him she is saying goodbye?

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

8. Who is Jocasta Cameron and what is manufactured on her plantation, River Run?

9. What is River Run and why do Claire, Jamie, and their group decide to take a side trip there?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following settings in detail:

1) Inverness, Scotland--both in the past and present

2) Boston, Massachusetts

3) Fraser's Ridge

4) River Run.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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