3. What does the stranger decide he will do next as he lies in the dark reliving his encounter with Pickles?
(a) Decide to kill a grizzly.
(b) Decide to kill a woman.
(c) Decide to kill himself.
(d) Decide to turn himself in.

4. How does Pickles get his name?
(a) From a former girlfriend.
(b) His parents named his that after a circus clown who saved his mother's life.
(c) His love of pickles and his sour attitude.
(d) From his granddaughter who could not pronounce his real name.

5. How does Tess shock Nate on the way to town?
(a) She takes off her clothes.
(b) She tells him she is married.
(c) She starts sobbing.
(d) She tells him she is leaving the ranch because she is scared.

6. What is Ben wanting of Willa?
(a) To marry him.
(b) Nothing at the moment.
(c) To sell the ranch to him.
(d) To become involved with him sexually.

7. What does Jesse say to the Mercy farmhands?
(a) That Mercy ranch is going to suffer hell for having a female running it.
(b) That they should no have to have a woman boss.
(c) That he is going to be running Mercy ranch someday.
(d) That his wife will someday own Mercy ranch.

8. What does Pickles realize as he sees a man with a bloody knife?
(a) That he should take a vacation right away.
(b) That he has never seen the man before.
(c) That Pickles knows the man.
(d) That his wife never loved him.

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

10. What does Ham advise Willa about herself?
(a) To marry Ben.
(b) To take complete charge of the ranch herself.
(c) Nothing.
(d) To slow down.

11. Who is Nathan Torrence?
(a) A friend of Tess Mercy who is from New York.
(b) Jack Mercy's lawyer.
(c) Mary Wolfchild's husband.
(d) Willa's half brother.

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

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

14. Where do Nate and Tess make love?
(a) On the kitchen table.
(b) On the floor in front of the fireplace.
(c) In Nate's bed.
(d) On Nate's desk.

15. What does Willa do when she sees a deer while driving?
(a) Slides on the ice and snow.
(b) Remembers the deer in the woods.
(c) Takes a picture.
(d) Stops to let it cross the road.