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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 is Ben wanting of Willa?
(a) To marry him.
(b) Nothing at the moment.
(c) To sell the ranch to him.
(d) To become involved with him sexually.

2. How does Ben gloss over the incident with Pickles?
(a) He says they have enough clues to find the perpetrator easily.
(b) He does not discuss the incident at all.
(c) He does not gloss over it, but rather tells it like it is.
(d) He says it's very difficult for someone to trespass.

3. What does Willa realize after her sisters inform her that they are staying?
(a) How close she came to losing the ranch.
(b) That her sisters are behind the problems on the ranch.
(c) That she loves her sisters.
(d) That her sisters have manipulated her.

4. What do Nate and Ben discuss with Willa?
(a) If Willa could handle Lily or Tess living longer than a year at the ranch.
(b) If Lily and Tess are allowed a vacation away from the ranch during the year.
(c) Selling Mercy Ranch.
(d) If she is conforming to the requirements of the will.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Louella receive when she and Jack divorce?

3. What does Tess say about staying at the ranch?

4. How does Tess shock Nate on the way to town?

5. Who is Nathan Torrence?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why do Tess, Lily and Adam ride out in the snow, what do they see, why do they argue, and what interrupts their argument?

6. Who is the second oldest daughter of the person in question #1, where did she come from and for what does she hope?

7. What did Lily consider the trip to Mercy Ranch to be and how do her and Adam handle her revelations?

8. What do Willa and Ben find the day after the funeral, how do they find it, and what do they do about it?

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

10. What does Willa see while birthing calves and what does she find?

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