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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. What does Serena do when she hears about the duel?
(a) She cheers that Standish is dead.
(b) She doesn't do anything.
(c) She cries because Brigham is hurt.
(d) She agrees to marry Brigham.

2. What teasing warning does Serena give Brigham about ever having a mistress?
(a) She kills her and him, but him more horribly.
(b) She throws him out on his ear.
(c) She packs his bags and leaves them outside.
(d) She divorces him.

3. What does Brigham tell Malcolm when the boy is unhappy because he cannot go to war with the men?
(a) He is needed at home to help protect the women.
(b) He is foolish to think such a thing.
(c) He can go if he proves his ability with a claymore.
(d) He'll be old enough to fight in the next war.

4. What does Brigham ask Prince Charles permission to do?
(a) To be able to take Serena home to be married.
(b) Get married to Serena at Holyrood.
(c) To use the Prince's chambers that night.
(d) To be his best man.

5. What does Serena do when Brigham leaves for London the following morning?
(a) She tells her father she wants to be a nun.
(b) She tells her mother to intervien on her behalf so she doesn't have to marry Brigham.
(c) She cries from a broken heart.
(d) She says good riddance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brigham threaten to do to force her to marry him?

2. In Chapter Eleven, what is happening between Parsins and Mrs. Drummond?

3. What does Brigham think about as his men moving back toward Inverness?

4. Who dies in the battle at Stirling?

5. In Chapter Nine when Serena is out riding, what is she thinking Brigham does after the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Serena struggling with during the three weeks in Holyrood House?

2. In Chapter Nine, why does Brigham follow Serena to her favorite place near the water? What does Serena ask him to do? What does he do?

3. What happens when five dragoons find Serena and the rest hiding in the cave?

4. What does Brigham reply when Serena asks why he fights Standish? Explain what he means.

5. After burying their father, what does Serena and Malcolm do? Why?

6. What does Brigham learn from the earl of Whitesmouth?

7. How many men are there when the standard is raised at Glenfinnan? Is that a sufficient number to go to war? If not, why do they proceed?

8. What does Serena admit to her mother she is upset about marrying Brigham? What does Fiona tell Serena after realizing her daughter is so distressed over whether she marries Brigham or not?

9. Where are the family when Coll and Brigham return to Glenroe and no one is there? What do they do?

10. What happens in the fight just south of Stirling regarding the battle and the personal toll?

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