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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tess insist upon when Willa returns after riding to the woods?
(a) That Willa call the sheriff.
(b) That Tess be allowed to leave for a few days.
(c) That Willa eat.
(d) That Willa settle an argument.

2. What does Jesse do whenever Lily left him?
(a) Calls the police.
(b) Threatens her mother.
(c) Threatens their child.
(d) Finds her and beats her.

3. Where has Jesse Cooke been hired?
(a) At Three Rocks.
(b) At the local hardware store.
(c) At Three Corners Ranchero.
(d) At the feed store in town.

4. What do Adam and Lily find in the barn?
(a) Slaughtered horses.
(b) Slaughtered horses and calves.
(c) Slaughtered calves.
(d) Slaughtered chickens.

5. Who does Ben want to have the ranch?
(a) Willa.
(b) Lily.
(c) Himself.
(d) Tess.

6. What is discovered at the bottom of Willa's porch?
(a) A defaced book.
(b) A dead skunk.
(c) A dead rat.
(d) A dead, naked girl.

7. What do Willa and Ben find after dressing the game?
(a) A lame fawn.
(b) A leg trap with a coyote in it still alive.
(c) A mutilated steer carcass.
(d) A pentagram painted on a rock face.

8. Who is Lily Mercy trying to avoid encountering?
(a) Willa Mercy.
(b) Jesse Cooke.
(c) Adam Mercy.
(d) Mary Wolfchild.

9. What do Nate and Ben discuss with Willa?
(a) If Willa could handle Lily or Tess living longer than a year at the ranch.
(b) If she is conforming to the requirements of the will.
(c) Selling Mercy Ranch.
(d) If Lily and Tess are allowed a vacation away from the ranch during the year.

10. What do Lily and Adam discuss briefly?
(a) Whether the bunkhouse needs work.
(b) How many cows to breed the next spring.
(c) The number of acres to keep fallow the next year.
(d) Lily's estranged husband.

11. What is one of Tess' duties on the ranch?
(a) Exercising the horses.
(b) Collecting eggs.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Sewing.

12. What does Lily don for the New Year's party?
(a) A dressy pair of pants and silk blouse.
(b) Jeans.
(c) She declares she is not attending the party.
(d) One of Tess' dresses.

13. Who cleans the blood off the porch?
(a) Ben.
(b) Tess.
(c) Lily.
(d) Willa.

14. What interrupts Tess and Lily arguing about returning to the ranch?
(a) A scream.
(b) The sound of a gunshot.
(c) The sound of something crashing through the woods.
(d) Tess starting to cry.

15. When does Jesse's abuse of Lily begin?
(a) Right after they are married.
(b) Several years into the marriage.
(c) Even before they are married.
(d) He is not abusive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Willa and Lily that she is ashamed of them?

2. Who reassures Lily about her safety?

3. Who does Willa cause to leave the bunkhouse?

4. How does Ben McKinnon feel about Jack Mercy's will?

5. About what does Ben tease Willa concerning Tess?

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