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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pickles realize as he sees a man with a bloody knife?
(a) That his wife never loved him.
(b) That Pickles knows the man.
(c) That he has never seen the man before.
(d) That he should take a vacation right away.

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

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

4. Where does Ben kiss Willa?
(a) In the ranch's library.
(b) In the bunkhouse.
(c) On the dance floor in front of everyone.
(d) In her bedroom.

5. What does Tess insist upon when Willa returns after riding to the woods?
(a) That Willa call the sheriff.
(b) That Willa eat.
(c) That Willa settle an argument.
(d) That Tess be allowed to leave for a few days.

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

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

8. What does Lily want to give Adam?
(a) A watch.
(b) A bracelet.
(c) A pair of cufflings.
(d) An accounting of her past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jesse feel after he murders again?

2. What will happen if any of the Mercy sisters leave the ranch before one year?

3. How does Pickles get his name?

4. What does Jesse do to the woman before he kills?

5. What does Willa find after she comes across Pickles' rig?

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