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

2. What do Adam and Willa do after their conversation?
(a) Decide to talk to Ben about Lily's husband.
(b) Race horses back to the ranch.
(c) Agree to help Lily with her husband.
(d) Kill a calf for Lily's party.

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

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

5. Who is the funeral for in chapter one?
(a) Jack Mercy.
(b) Willa Mercy.
(c) Mary Wolfchild.
(d) Jefferson Mercy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sarah say she is going to visit?

2. What does Tess give Nate?

3. What do Tess and Lily decide to do?

4. Whose pending marriage is discussed among Willa and Ben's family?

5. Why do Tess, Lily and Adam ride out into the snow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the killer feeling after he kills Pickles and what does he decide at that point?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What does Lily tell Adam about her life?

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