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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 Tess insist upon when Willa returns after riding to the woods?
(a) That Tess be allowed to leave for a few days.
(b) That Willa call the sheriff.
(c) That Willa settle an argument.
(d) That Willa eat.

2. What does Tess give Nate?
(a) A cowboy hat.
(b) A book of poetry.
(c) A sweater she knits.
(d) A book about constellations.

3. What does Willa hear at the end of chapter 13?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) New Year's firecrackers exploding.
(d) Glass breaking.

4. What does Jesse say to the Mercy farmhands?
(a) That they should no have to have a woman boss.
(b) That Mercy ranch is going to suffer hell for having a female running it.
(c) That he is going to be running Mercy ranch someday.
(d) That his wife will someday own Mercy ranch.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Jesse Cooke been hired?

2. What does Lily say to Adam?

3. Why does Willa think her father writes his will the way he does?

4. How does the stranger feel as he relives his encounter with Pickles?

5. Why is Adam angry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Willa think is the reason her father set the will up as he did?

3. Why is Willa crying on the couch when Ben finds her and what does he do about it?

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

6. What does the will say about the ranch?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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