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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willa realize after her sisters inform her that they are staying?
(a) That her sisters have manipulated her.
(b) That she loves her sisters.
(c) That her sisters are behind the problems on the ranch.
(d) How close she came to losing the ranch.

2. Who is the funeral for in chapter one?
(a) Jefferson Mercy.
(b) Willa Mercy.
(c) Mary Wolfchild.
(d) Jack Mercy.

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

4. What do Adam and Willa do after their conversation?
(a) Decide to talk to Ben about Lily's husband.
(b) Race horses back to the ranch.
(c) Agree to help Lily with her husband.
(d) Kill a calf for Lily's party.

5. What does Willa hear at the end of chapter 13?
(a) Glass breaking.
(b) Screaming.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) New Year's firecrackers exploding.

6. About what does Willa wonder?
(a) Why Tess has to see her mother in person.
(b) Why Ben is underfoot so much.
(c) Her sorrow at the incident that Lily discovers.
(d) Why Lily was in the barn.

7. What does someone shoot and leave in the woods?
(a) Three crows.
(b) One of the ranch dogs.
(c) Another cat.
(d) A deer.

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

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

10. Who is Traci?
(a) Tess's best friend.
(b) A hitchhiker Jesse picks up.
(c) Jesse's sister.
(d) Lily's former boss.

11. What does Ben tell his mother?
(a) That he intends to help Willa at the Mercy ranch.
(b) That he is giving up ranching.
(c) That he is going to New York to find Jesse.
(d) That he intends to fight Jack's will.

12. Why does Willa think her father writes his will the way he does?
(a) He thinks it a funny joke.
(b) He hopes one of his daughters will marry Ben.
(c) He hopes his three daughters will come to love each other.
(d) He hopes to teach his daughters obedience.

13. How does Willa shock Tess?
(a) By saying Adam must leave the ranch.
(b) By saying Willa is marrying Nathan.
(c) By agreeing the three women need to work together.
(d) By agreeing to let Tess leave secretly for a week.

14. What will happen if any of the Mercy sisters leave the ranch before one year?
(a) The ranch goes to the Blackfeet nation.
(b) The ranch goes to Willa.
(c) The ranch goes to whoever is left by the end of the year.
(d) The ranch goes to the Nature Conservancy.

15. What is one reason Jesse Cooke does not want to let Lily go?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She will inherit a part of Mercy Ranch.
(d) She knows of his illegal activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ben kiss Willa?

2. Who is Lily Mercy trying to avoid encountering?

3. About what does Ben tease Willa concerning Tess?

4. How does Tess shock Nate on the way to town?

5. Who has the flu?

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