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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 announcement is Jocasta to make at a part in her home in Chapter 12?

2. Who does Jamie dream of while he is waiting for discovery after his injury in Chapter 21?

3. What is the punishment when a black man draws blood on a white man?

4. In what time period does Brianna live?

5. Why are Roger and Brianna cleaning out the library in the Reverend's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who boards the boat Sally Ann and robs the passengers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is significant about the moon landing in 1969 as compared to Claire's ability to travel in time?

10. Who killed the Tuscarora shaman and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who is Ian? How is he related to Jamie? What is his role in the novel? How does he illustrate the theme of coming of age? In what time period does he live? How does he learn to become a man? What selfless act causes the reader to see he has reached full maturity? Is this a safe thing Ian has done? Will Ian appear in a later addition of the series? How does the reader know this?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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