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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ham advise Willa concerning the winter?
(a) The winter is going to be really bad this year with lots of snow.
(b) They should close down for the winter.
(c) She can get through the winter without hiring anyone else.
(d) He does not say anything about the winter.

2. What does Ben tell his mother?
(a) That he intends to fight Jack's will.
(b) That he is giving up ranching.
(c) That he is going to New York to find Jesse.
(d) That he intends to help Willa at the Mercy ranch.

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

4. Who does Ben want to have the ranch?
(a) Lily.
(b) Tess.
(c) Willa.
(d) Himself.

5. Why is Willa unhappy upon returning to the ranch house at the end of the day?
(a) That Tess has not returned from Los Angeles.
(b) That Lily's husband has taken the last guest room.
(c) That her mother will not stay any longer at the ranch.
(d) That Ben McKinnon arrives at the ranch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who knocks on Willa's vehicle window?

2. Why are the ranch hands bickering?

3. What do Tess and Lily decide to do?

4. What does Ham advise Willa about herself?

5. What does Jesse say to the Mercy farmhands?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tess insist Willa do when she returns from checking on the deer in the woods, and what interrupts that?

2. Who is the ranch foreman, of what does he assure Willa, and what is his and Willa's relationship?

3. What do Nate, Adam and Ben do after the party and the discovery outside?

4. What does Ham say to Willa about the ranch and her in Chapter 16?

5. With whom is Tess speaking on the phone at the wake, what does she tell the person, and what is Tess's intent concerning after the funeral?

6. What is found at the foot of Willa's porch after the New Year's Eve party is over? What is done about it?

7. What does Tess decide to do about Nate's Christmas present and how does Willa feel about that?

8. Who discovers Pickles' body, how does she feel about it, who else comes along, and what does he tell her?

9. Whose funeral is happening in the beginning of the book, what kind of a person was he and how does his daughter feel about the people at the wake?

10. What does Lily tell Adam about her life?

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