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

3. What has Lily discovered?
(a) Her mother's unconscious body.
(b) The tailess body of a cat.
(c) Two live rattlesnakes in the kitchen.
(d) The headless body of a cat.

4. What has Willa shot?
(a) A prairie chicken.
(b) A cougar.
(c) A rattlesnake.
(d) A grizzly.

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

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

7. Why is Pickles angry regarding Willa?
(a) That she shot a grizzly.
(b) That she shot a cougar.
(c) That she inherits the ranch all by herself.
(d) That he has to have her as a boss.

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

9. What does Willa find after she comes across Pickles' rig?
(a) His dead body.
(b) An injured, but alive, Pickles.
(c) A mutilated cow.
(d) A dead crow.

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

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

12. For what is Lily grateful?
(a) That her daughter is coming out soon.
(b) That she is finally getting to know her sisters.
(c) That she has slept well for the first time in months.
(d) That her husband will be joining her shortly.

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

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

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