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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 has Willa shot?
(a) A prairie chicken.
(b) A grizzly.
(c) A cougar.
(d) A rattlesnake.

2. How does Willa feel as she drives around the ranch?
(a) Angry at her father.
(b) Despondent.
(c) Alone.
(d) Optimistic.

3. What does Lily want to give Adam?
(a) A watch.
(b) An accounting of her past.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A pair of cufflings.

4. How does Tess respond to seeing a calf castrated?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She screams.
(c) She faints.
(d) She is angry.

5. Who do Nate and Ben go to find?
(a) Tess.
(b) Adam.
(c) Lily.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Willa see at Ben's house?

2. What does Ham say Willa is doing?

3. Who knocks on Willa's vehicle window?

4. How does the stranger feel as he relives his encounter with Pickles?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does Willa meet to make sure she is adhering to the rules of the will, what does Willa tell them, and what do they think about her ideas?

2. What does Tess decide to do about Nate's Christmas present and how does Willa feel about that?

3. What do Ben, Tess and Lily discuss over soup, and what does Ben point out in their discussion?

4. Where does Tess go after the funeral, who is her mother, and what is her mother like? Why did her mother marry her father?

5. Why is Ben's mother, Sarah, concerned about him and what does he tell her?

6. What does Willa teach her sisters in Chapter 15 and what does Tess do after that?

7. With what is Willa have trouble with the ranch hands, who takes offense at her, and what does he do about it?

8. Who discovers Pickles' body, how does she feel about it, who else comes along, and what does he tell her?

9. Why do Tess, Lily and Adam ride out in the snow, what do they see, why do they argue, and what interrupts their argument?

10. What is the killer feeling after he kills Pickles and what does he decide at that point?

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