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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the rescuers find in the cave?
(a) Nothing but Lily.
(b) Jesse's dead body.
(c) A few supplies and Lily.
(d) Several scalps.

2. Why does Willa pace back at the ranch?
(a) Waiting for word on how Lily is.
(b) She is nervous about Ben staying there.
(c) Waiting for the police to arrive.
(d) She is nervous about her sisters deciding to leave.

3. Where does Ham finally collapse when he goes for help?
(a) In the barn.
(b) Halfway to the main ranch house.
(c) By the south gate.
(d) At Tess and Bess's fet.

4. What happened when Jim tells Jack who he is?
(a) Jack laughs.
(b) Jack embraces Jim.
(c) Jack tells him to get off his ranch and never come back.
(d) Jack calls the police.

5. About what is Ben angry?
(a) That Willa refuses to marry him.
(b) That Jesse had worked for him.
(c) That the killer was not Jesse.
(d) That Jesse didn't have to stand trial.

6. What does Jack give Jim for his 21st birthday?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A deer head.
(c) A knife.
(d) A horse.

7. What does Nate offer to give Tess?
(a) His heart.
(b) Part interest in his business.
(c) A pre-nuptial agreement.
(d) Time to adjust to what he said.

8. Why is Adam sorry?
(a) That he was not the one to see the smoke.
(b) That he is not able to kill Jesse himself.
(c) That Lily's face is so cut up.
(d) That whoever saved Lily does not stay around.

9. What bothers Willa during the week after Adam is shot?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Ben staying away.
(c) Calls from someone who taunts her.
(d) The details of running the ranch.

10. What does Willa do while in a rage?
(a) Target practices with a human target.
(b) Slaps Tess for a well-intentioned comment about the ranch.
(c) Slaps Lily for bringing danger to them.
(d) Tears down her father's mounted trophies.

11. Why does Jack have nothing to do with Jim's mother?
(a) He had just married Sarah.
(b) He had just married Willa's mother.
(c) He had just married Louella.
(d) He had just married Adele.

12. Where do Jesse and Lily go?
(a) To the airport.
(b) Into the mountains.
(c) They head for California.
(d) To the train station.

13. Why does Ham ask for his check so he can quit?
(a) Because Willa embarrasses him.
(b) Because his wife needs an operation.
(c) Because he is getting too old for cowboy work.
(d) Because his daughter needs an operation.

14. What shakes up Willa while talking with Ben?
(a) Ben announces that he plans to sell his ranch.
(b) Ben announces that he is engaged.
(c) She hears Tess screaming.
(d) The thought that the killer could be one of their hired hands.

15. What does Jim say about Willa's father?
(a) That he had gotten Jim's mother pregnant on a one night stand.
(b) That he was a cheat.
(c) That he was a coward.
(d) That he killed Jim's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nate tell Ben about Tess?

2. What does the killer slip under Lily's kitchen door?

3. To whom do they give what the killer leaves for Lily?

4. After the sisters return to the ranch, where are Adam and Ben going?

5. What does Tess suggest after Willa confides in her?

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