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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. Claire realizes that any other doctor of the day would have fixed Jamie's hand by which method?
(a) A plaster cast.
(b) Amputation.
(c) Transplanting toes.
(d) Salve and balm.

2. Where does Claire hide her dagger in Part 7, Chapter 36, just in case she needs to face the English and defend herself and Jamie?
(a) Rolled up in the back of her dress.
(b) In her sleeve.
(c) In her dagger pocket.
(d) In a sheath on her calf.

3. Whom does Jenny blame for what happened to Jamie and to their father at the hands of Captain Randall?
(a) Jamie.
(b) Murtagh.
(c) Corporal Hawkins.
(d) Herself.

4. What is the name of the boy who was supposed to gather all the cattle before a coming storm?
(a) David.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Absalom.
(d) Reuben.

5. What do Jamie and Ian do while Jenny is in labor?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Tend the fields.
(c) Smoke cigars.
(d) Get drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Jamie's house built?

2. As Jamie relates in Part 7, Chapter 39, when Captain Randall was beginning to torture him, what did Randall do first with the knife?

3. What does the housekeeper of Lallybroch fix for Murtagh to eat?

4. What is the name of the person Jenny ties to a tree in Part 5, Chapter 33?

5. How long does Jenny say it takes to make beeswax candles, from start to finish?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claire's companion keep Claire from having to talk to the English soldiers and betray her English accent?

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

3. Why did the Watch not kill Ian when they captured Jamie?

4. 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?

5. When Claire goes to sees Jamie in the beginning of Part 7, Chapter 39, Murtagh stops her before she gets to the door and tells her what?

6. How does Claire react when she feels the baby moving in Jenny's belly?

7. What is the gift that Claire has for Jamie at the end of the novel?

8. When Claire meets the Franciscan priest in Part 7, Chapter 38, where is the priest going?

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

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

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