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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 at the cemetery?
(a) Visits her mother's grave.
(b) Visits her grandmother's grave.
(c) Places flowers on her baby sister's grave.
(d) Tells her father she is done with trying to please him.

2. How does Tess shock Nate on the way to town?
(a) She tells him she is leaving the ranch because she is scared.
(b) She starts sobbing.
(c) She takes off her clothes.
(d) She tells him she is married.

3. Why does Tess decide to give Nate his Christmas present early?
(a) In the hopes of sparking a fling with him.
(b) Because it is something to wear on Christmas.
(c) She does not plan on giving Nate a present.
(d) Because it will keep growing.

4. What do Lily and Adam discuss briefly?
(a) Whether the bunkhouse needs work.
(b) Lily's estranged husband.
(c) How many cows to breed the next spring.
(d) The number of acres to keep fallow the next year.

5. Who is Lily Mercy trying to avoid encountering?
(a) Mary Wolfchild.
(b) Jesse Cooke.
(c) Willa Mercy.
(d) Adam Mercy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Traci?

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

4. What has Willa shot?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Why do Tess, Lily and Adam ride out in the snow, what do they see, why do they argue, and what interrupts their argument?

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

6. How does Jesse Cooke feel about what is happening at the Mercy ranch and what does he plan to do?

7. What does Tess see at the corral that bothers her, what does she do, who takes her in the house, and what does he say to her?

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

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

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

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