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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 Willa do when Ben teases her?
(a) Slaps him.
(b) Tells him to get out of her house.
(c) Dumps beer on him.
(d) Laughs and then kisses him.

2. Who is Traci?
(a) Jesse's sister.
(b) Tess's best friend.
(c) Lily's former boss.
(d) A hitchhiker Jesse picks up.

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

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

5. Of what does Nate remind Tess about Willa?
(a) That Willa is Jack Mercy's favorite daughter.
(b) That Willa is very much younger than her sisters.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Willa cause to leave the bunkhouse?

3. What does Lily don for the New Year's party?

4. What do Adam and Willa do after their conversation?

5. What does Jesse do whenever Lily left him?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does Willa meet to make sure she is adhering to the rules of the will, what does Willa tell them, and what do they think about her ideas?

2. In Chapter 9, what does Ham tell Willa about ranch hands and about what she needs to do?

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

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

5. What do Ben, Tess and Lily discuss over soup, and what does Ben point out in their discussion?

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

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

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

9. What does Willa realize when her sisters tell her they are staying after Pickles was murdered?

10. What does Lily tell Adam about her life?

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