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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. Whom does Jenny blame for what happened to Jamie and to their father at the hands of Captain Randall?

2. What does Jenny want to name the baby if it is a girl?

3. Who helps Claire choose good medicinal herbs in Part 5, Chapter 28?

4. As Part 6, Chapter 34 reveals, who is Hamish Mackenzie's biological father?

5. While Murtagh and Claire are looking for Jamie, what does Claire do in addition to tending the sick people they meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is Geillis Duncan's message for Claire?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. How do Claire and her group get Jamie out of prison?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe two major themes that occur throughout the novel, and explicate the ways in which the author discusses them.

Essay Topic 2

Consider the few chapters in which Jamie serves as laird of Lallybroch. Do you think the confidence and capability you see in him as a leader in those chapters carries over into later chapters, or does he develop into a leader for a moment and then revert to his ruffian self afterward?

Essay Topic 3

Jenny's pregnancy provides the opportunity for an extended use of metaphor in Chapter 30. Describe the author's use of metaphor and its strategical importance in describing an abstract concept. Do you think Jenny could have described pregnancy to her male listeners without using metaphor? Why or why not?

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