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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 city in South Carolina do Jamie, Claire and Fergus come to in Chapter 1?

2. What do Jamie and William find when they arrive at the Tuscarora village in Chapter 28?

3. Who is Brianna Randall?

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

5. What did Claire see in the future that makes her afraid for Jamie's life in the past?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. For what reason does Roger decide to take Brianna to Christmas Eve services at the Catholic Church?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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