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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What angers Jesse?
(a) Seeing Lily learning new skills.
(b) Seeing Willa taking charge of the ranch.
(c) Seeing Tess ordering Lilly around.
(d) Seeing Lily with Adam.

2. What is happening to Willa despite her not wanting it?
(a) She is relying too much on the men around her.
(b) She is growing closer to her sisters.
(c) She is accepting the idea of not having Mercy ranch.
(d) She is falling for Ben.

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 is Jack Mercy's favorite daughter.
(c) That Willa is very much younger than her sisters.
(d) That Willa was raised by cow hands rather than a mother.

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

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

6. What does Willa do at the cemetery?
(a) Tells her father she is done with trying to please him.
(b) Visits her grandmother's grave.
(c) Places flowers on her baby sister's grave.
(d) Visits her mother's grave.

7. What do Tess and Lily decide to do?
(a) Learn karate.
(b) Learn to ride a horse better.
(c) Leave the ranch.
(d) Learn to shoot a gun.

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

9. Who does Willa see at Ben's house?
(a) Shelly and her baby.
(b) Ben's brother.
(c) Ben's aunt.
(d) Ben's sister.

10. Who is happy to see the pie Willa brings from Bess?
(a) Ben.
(b) Shelly.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Stu.

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

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

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

14. Why is Adam angry?
(a) That the police are suspicious of one of them.
(b) That someone is killing animals for no reason.
(c) That the police are not doing more.
(d) That Lily is not safe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the funeral for in chapter one?

2. What does the stranger decide he will do next as he lies in the dark reliving his encounter with Pickles?

3. About what does Lily worry?

4. Who does Willa cause to leave the bunkhouse?

5. How does Pickles get his name?

(see the answer keys)

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