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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 tell Ben that surprises him?
(a) That she is engaged.
(b) That she is a virgin.
(c) That she is madly in love with him.
(d) That she is selling her share of the ranch.

2. Who has the flu?
(a) Ben's mother.
(b) Ben's father.
(c) Lily.
(d) Ham.

3. What interrupts Ben and Willa?
(a) A horn honking.
(b) A scream.
(c) The sounds of dishing breaking.
(d) A growl.

4. For what is Lily grateful?
(a) That she has slept well for the first time in months.
(b) That she is finally getting to know her sisters.
(c) That her daughter is coming out soon.
(d) That her husband will be joining her shortly.

5. What does Willa do when she sees a deer while driving?
(a) Slides on the ice and snow.
(b) Stops to let it cross the road.
(c) Remembers the deer in the woods.
(d) Takes a picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Adam and Lily find in the barn?

2. Who does Willa see at Ben's house?

3. Why is Pickles angry regarding Willa?

4. What does Ben tell his mother?

5. What is Ben wanting of Willa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lily tell Adam about her life?

3. What does Ben asks Willa to do at the New Year's Eve party, what is her response, and what do the two of them think of Adam and Lily?

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

5. Why is Ben's mother, Sarah, concerned about him and what does he tell her?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. What does Adam tell Willa about a deer in the woods and what does Willa do about it?

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

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