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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Jenny rejoin the family's goings-on after giving birth?
(a) Three days later.
(b) Two months later.
(c) A week later.
(d) The next day.

2. Of what is the dress made that Jenny is wearing in Part 5, Chapter 27?
(a) White linen.
(b) Yellow cotton.
(c) Red wool.
(d) Blue silk.

3. In what year was Jamie's house built?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1434.
(c) 1702.
(d) 1741.

4. What does the housekeeper of Lallybroch fix for Murtagh to eat?
(a) Bannocks.
(b) Vegetable soup.
(c) Fish and chips.
(d) Herring.

5. How many Redcoats do Claire, Murtagh, and Jamie encounter while they are trying to get away from the area of Wentworth Prison?
(a) Six.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Part 5, Chapter 30, what word does Jamie use to describe how he feels after having drunk with Ian?

2. When he is talking to the Redcoats in Part 7, Chapter 37, where does Murtagh pretend he wants to go?

3. Where did the English take Jamie?

4. Where does Jamie take Claire in Part 7, Chapter 41?

5. What does Claire do to the Redcoat she chases in Part 7, Chapter 37?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 7, Chapter 40, when Jamie continues his story of what happened between Captain Randall and him, what does he say Randall wanted?

2. Describe Jamie's home.

3. In Part 6, Chapter 34, why is Murtagh carrying Claire's medicine box?

4. What does Claire want Father Anselm to do for her, and how does he react?

5. What does the Franciscan priest teach Claire to do during the night when she is not sleeping?

6. As the reader finds out in Part 7, Chapter 37, why has Jamie been so loath to go to France, much less to America?

7. What does Jamie do with the knife he requests in Part 7, Chapter 36?

8. Why does Jamie feel so dirty and unable to touch Claire?

9. As Jamie tells Claire in Part 7, Chapter 41, why did he ask her to let him die in the immediate aftermath of his escape from Wentworth Prison?

10. As Jenny tells the others, what did she do when she realized that Captain Randall was unable to rape her?

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