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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. What city in South Carolina do Jamie, Claire and Fergus come to in Chapter 1?

2. How does the slave become injured in the hours before his judgment is to be carried out?

3. Who does Jamie dream of while he is waiting for discovery after his injury in Chapter 21?

4. Why are Roger and Brianna cleaning out the library in the Reverend's house?

5. Where does Jamie and his group decide to travel when they leave South Carolina?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the circle of stones?

2. Who is Jocasta Cameron and what is manufactured on her plantation, River Run?

3. What does Brianna send to Roger that convinces him she is saying goodbye?

4. What does Roger find among his father's papers that he chooses to keep from Brianna? How might this item have affected Brianna's decisions?

5. Roger Wakefield takes Brianna to a Celtic Festival. What is a Celtic Festival and why does Brianna react so poorly to the festival?

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

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

8. What illness begins to appear at Fraser's Ridge?

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

10. For what reason do Jamie and Claire decide to leave River Run?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss irony. Define irony. How many examples of irony are present in this novel? What makes an event ironic? Is Jamie's decision to help Stephen Bonnet ironic? For what reason? List other examples of irony and what makes them ironic.

Essay Topic 2

This novel describes what happens when one woman travels in time. Discuss how Claire's actions have affected the lives of the people around her, including the people of the past and the present. Discuss what Jamie's life would have been like if Claire had never traveled in time, what Claire changed by traveling in time, and how those changes might have changed the future. Also discuss how Brianna's birth may have caused a change in time, leading to a disruption of the future. Discuss time travel and all its inherent dangers, especially those suggested or glossed over in this novel.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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