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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Ben McKinnon feel about Jack Mercy's will?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Confused.
(d) Indifferent.

3. What does Willa do when Ben teases her?
(a) Laughs and then kisses him.
(b) Dumps beer on him.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Tells him to get out of her house.

4. What does the man do as he thinks about his next victim?
(a) Kills a cat that strays into the room.
(b) Cuts himself.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Masturbates.

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

6. About what does Lily worry?
(a) That her husband won't be able to visit any time soon.
(b) That Tess will leave the ranch.
(c) That Willa is in danger.
(d) That the ranch is not safe.

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

8. 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) Selling Mercy Ranch.
(c) If she is conforming to the requirements of the will.
(d) If Lily and Tess are allowed a vacation away from the ranch during the year.

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

10. When does Willa ride the fences on the ranch?
(a) On Thanksgiving day.
(b) She can not ride the fences in winter as the snow is too high.
(c) On Christmas day.
(d) During a short break in the weather in December.

11. What does Jesse do to the woman before he kills?
(a) Tells her he loves her.
(b) Feeds her a huge breakfast.
(c) Rapes her.
(d) Calls her Lily.

12. What does Adam tell Lily that Tess is planning?
(a) He is not sure what she is planning.
(b) A party.
(c) An announcement.
(d) A short trip to her home to check on her house.

13. What does Willa insist upon doing herself?
(a) Branding the new calves.
(b) Tracking the killer.
(c) Burning the slaughtered animals.
(d) Riding the fence line.

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

15. Why does Willa feel guilty?
(a) She sent Pickles out to ride the fence line.
(b) She is short with Tess.
(c) She makes Lily cry.
(d) She is so mean to Ben who just wants to help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Nate and Tess make love?

2. What does the man with the bloody knife say?

3. Who cleans the blood off the porch?

4. What angers Jesse?

5. What do Lily and Adam discuss briefly?

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