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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Fall: Chapters Six-Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Pickles angry regarding Willa?
(a) That he has to have her as a boss.
(b) That she inherits the ranch all by herself.
(c) That she shot a cougar.
(d) That she shot a grizzly.

2. What does Willa find after she comes across Pickles' rig?
(a) A mutilated cow.
(b) An injured, but alive, Pickles.
(c) A dead crow.
(d) His dead body.

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

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

5. Of what does Nate remind Tess about Willa?
(a) That Willa will lose 2/3 of the ranch to her sisters.
(b) That Willa is Jack Mercy's favorite daughter.
(c) That Willa was raised by cow hands rather than a mother.
(d) That Willa is very much younger than her sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pickles realize as he sees a man with a bloody knife?

2. How does Tess respond to seeing a calf castrated?

3. About what does Sarah worry?

4. Why does Willa feel guilty?

5. How does Ben gloss over the incident with Pickles?

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