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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. Who helps Claire bring down Jamie's fever?
(a) Brother Ambrose.
(b) Brother Bartolome.
(c) Brother Polydore.
(d) Father Anselm.

2. According to Jamie's story to Claire, what did Randall give him to drink when he returned after having freed Claire from Wentworth Prison?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Tea.
(c) Ale.
(d) Whiskey.

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

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

5. Of what did Jamie's brother Willie die?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Flu.
(d) A hunting accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ian, what direction did the Watch take Jamie in Part 5, Chapter 33?

2. What is the name of the Franciscan priest with whom Claire strikes up a friendship?

3. Which boy does Jamie accept as a helper with the horses?

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

5. Where did the English take Jamie?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Jenny, why do men make love to women?

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

3. In Part 5, Chapter 27, what is the reason Jamie gives Claire for having married her?

4. According to the man whom Jenny questions, how did Jamie escape the Watch?

5. What happened when Jamie told his father that corporal punishment was "barbarous"?

6. 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?

7. Why is Jamie glad that Claire is barren?

8. Describe the Redcoat Claire chases in Part 7, Chapter 37.

9. 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?

10. Why does Jenny tell Claire what to name the baby before the baby is born?

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