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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. Who tells Roger about Brianna's pregnancy in Chapter 60?

2. What does Lizzie tell Jamie Roger did to Brianna in Wilmington?

3. What does Roger find during a brief escape attempt in Chapter 51?

4. Who does Brianna arrange to meet alone in Chapter 41?

5. Why is Brianna forced to stop her journey when she reaches Wilmington in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Alexandre is put to death by the Mohawks?

2. What sex is Brianna's baby? Who offers to become the child's legal father?

3. How does Roger react to having been sold to the Indians?

4. With whom does Brianna visit when she arrives in 1769?

5. Why does Brianna buy the servant she buys?

6. Why does Brianna give her son the last name Mackenzie?

7. What does Jamie admit he has done to Roger? Why?

8. What job does Roger take when he attempts to make his way to America?

9. Why does Jocasta want Brianna to find a man to marry?

10. Why do the Mohawks want to keep Alexandre captive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss irony. Define irony. How many examples of irony are present in this novel? What makes an event ironic? Is Jamie's decision to help Stephen Bonnet ironic? For what reason? List other examples of irony and what makes them ironic.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Roger Wakefield? What role does he play in Brianna's life? How is Roger related to Jamie Fraser and his family? How does Roger save his own great grandmother six times removed? Why? Was this intentional? Could this change Roger's life in the 1970s? Why does Roger follow Brianna to the 1770s? How doe he follow her? What knowledge does Roger's relative, Fiona, have that helps him? What happens to Roger when he arrives in the past?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following in detail:

1) Moon walk

2) Celtic Festival

3) Mount Helicon.

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