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

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

3. How does Willa feel as she drives around the ranch?
(a) Despondent.
(b) Angry at her father.
(c) Alone.
(d) Optimistic.

4. How does the stranger feel as he relives his encounter with Pickles?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Sick.
(c) Confused as if he did not really do anything.
(d) Guilty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tess willing to stay at the ranch?

2. Who is Nathan Torrence?

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

4. What does the man do as he thinks about his next victim?

5. Who loses the shooting competition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the killer do after the New Year's Eve party?

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 Willa teach her sisters in Chapter 15 and what does Tess do after that?

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

5. What does the will say about the ranch?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Where does Tess go after the funeral, who is her mother, and what is her mother like? Why did her mother marry her father?

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