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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louella wonder about Tess being on the ranch?
(a) If she will fall in love with Ben.
(b) If she will give up her share of the ranch.
(c) If she will finally learn to ride.
(d) If it will change her.

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

3. Who does Willa cause to leave the bunkhouse?
(a) Donuts.
(b) Jasper.
(c) Pickles.
(d) Ketchum.

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

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

6. Where does Sarah say she is going to visit?
(a) The Mercy ranch.
(b) Los Angeles to speak with Louella.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Her other son in Wyoming.

7. Whose pending marriage is discussed among Willa and Ben's family?
(a) Willa and Ben.
(b) Adam and Sarah.
(c) Nate and Tess.
(d) No one.

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

9. Why are the ranch hands bickering?
(a) They don't like their assignments.
(b) They lost at cards to JC.
(c) They don't want Ben telling them what to do.
(d) They haven't been paid in weeks.

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

11. Who do Nate and Ben go to find?
(a) Lily.
(b) Tess.
(c) Jack.
(d) Adam.

12. What interrupts Tess and Lily arguing about returning to the ranch?
(a) Tess starting to cry.
(b) The sound of a gunshot.
(c) The sound of something crashing through the woods.
(d) A scream.

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

14. What does Louella receive when she and Jack divorce?
(a) Money only.
(b) Quarter interest in the ranch.
(c) Custody of Tess but not money.
(d) Custody of Tess and money.

15. What is discovered at the bottom of Willa's porch?
(a) A defaced book.
(b) A dead rat.
(c) A dead, naked girl.
(d) A dead skunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tess decide to give Nate his Christmas present early?

2. How does the stranger feel as he relives his encounter with Pickles?

3. How does Pickles get his name?

4. What does Lily don for the New Year's party?

5. Of what does Nate remind Tess about Willa?

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