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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. Who is Brianna Randall?

2. How does Jamie's group make money with their gems?

3. In what city does Jamie learn of Hector Cameron's death?

4. What item from Brianna does Roger receive in Chapter 30?

5. What does Fiona believe protects the travelers as they pass through the circle of stones?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Brianna turn down Roger's offer of marriage?

2. The narration moves to 1969 where Brianna Randall currently lives. How is Brianna Randall related to Jamie and Claire?

3. What are Claire and Jamie looking for as they separate from their friends in the mountains?

4. Why is Roger cleaning out his father's house?

5. Why is Claire worried about Jamie's determination to remain on the mountain through winter?

6. Why does Claire dislike Jamie's friend, Lord John Grey?

7. Who is present at a party Jamie and Claire are invited to in Wilmington, North Carolina? What business deal does this person suggest to Jamie?

8. What items do Fiona and Roger discover offer protection when traveling through time with help from the circle of stones?

9. Why do Jamie and Claire choose the site in the mountains on which they plan to make their home?

10. Who killed the Tuscarora shaman and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Roger Wakefield? What role does he play in Brianna's life? How is Roger related to Jamie Fraser and his family? How does Roger save his own great grandmother six times removed? Why? Was this intentional? Could this change Roger's life in the 1970s? Why does Roger follow Brianna to the 1770s? How doe he follow her? What knowledge does Roger's relative, Fiona, have that helps him? What happens to Roger when he arrives in the past?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Claire Fraser? How did she happen to travel in time? How has time travel impacted her life? Why did Claire return her daughter to her own time? Why did Claire return to the 1700s? What kind of life does Claire have in the 1700s? How is it different from her previous life in the 1940s? How has Claire adjusted to this new time period?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following relationships from this novel:

1) Claire and Jamie

2) Claire and Brianna

3) Brianna and Roger

4) Brianna and Jamie

5) Roger and Jamie.

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