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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. As Jamie tells Claire, what was the name by which Captain Randall called Jamie?
(a) Alex.
(b) Joseph.
(c) William.
(d) Jonathan.

2. As Part 6, Chapter 34 reveals, who is Hamish Mackenzie's biological father?
(a) Dougal.
(b) Colum Mackenzie.
(c) Jamie.
(d) Murtagh.

3. What is the name of the person Jenny ties to a tree in Part 5, Chapter 33?
(a) Ian Murray.
(b) Eustace MacGregor.
(c) Robert MacDonald.
(d) Ronald MacNab.

4. Which monk tends the abbey's greenhouse expertly, including watching over the growth of medicinal herbs?
(a) Abbot Alexander.
(b) Brother Ambrose.
(c) Father Herbert.
(d) Brother Bartolome.

5. Where does Mrs. Crook do the laundry?
(a) In a cauldron.
(b) Upstairs in a bathtub.
(c) At the local laundromat.
(d) In the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Claire goes to check on Jamie in Part 7, Chapter 40, who has been taking care of him?

2. In Part 6, Chapter 34, where do Claire and Murtagh think Jamie is going?

3. When does Jenny rejoin the family's goings-on after giving birth?

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. In Part 5, Chapter 33, whom does Jenny find to replace her on the hunt for Jamie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Jamie carry a dried mole's foot with him at all times?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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