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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the occurrences that Fertility can predict through her dreams?
(a) A gas station will explode.
(b) Hundreds of canaries will escape from a pet store.
(c) A crystal chandelier will fall in a hotel.
(d) A lion will escape from the zoo.

2. What does Fertility reveal to "phone Tender" that she knows about "cemetery Tender"?
(a) That he is Creedish.
(b) That he really likes her.
(c) That he has cancer.
(d) That he is a house cleaner.

3. What is Tender doing when he receives a phone call from a girl in a loud dance club?
(a) Going to the bathroom.
(b) Breading a veal cutlet.
(c) Watching T.V.
(d) Just leaving his apartment.

4. How does Tender feel about the flowers at the cemetery?
(a) He feels they are beautiful.
(b) He thinks they are a waste of money.
(c) He can't stand that they are fake.
(d) He finds them depressing.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the phrases spoken between Creedish Church members in the outside world?
(a) May you live long and prosper.
(b) May you die with all your work complete.
(c) May you be a complete service in your lifetime.
(d) May our efforts bring all those around us to Heaven.

6. What do a lot of the Creedish Church members have issues with, including Tender?
(a) Sex and masturbation.
(b) Their employers.
(c) Their weight.
(d) Homesickness.

7. What did the FBI discover when they went to the Creedish colony to investigate the complaint?
(a) Many of the older men had guns.
(b) Many children were abused and neglected.
(c) Many children had no birth certificate.
(d) The wives were being held against their will.

8. What is Tender's daytime job?
(a) He is a farmer.
(b) He is a social worker.
(c) He is a minister.
(d) He is a housecleaner.

9. Before Tender is sent out to work, who tells him about the "real world"?
(a) His brother, John.
(b) A church elder.
(c) His brother, Adam.
(d) His father.

10. Who does Tender meet in the cemetery?
(a) His mother.
(b) Trevor Hollis.
(c) Adam.
(d) Fertility Hollis.

11. How does Fertility describe the man from the cemetery (who is really Tender)?
(a) He smells and is really fat.
(b) He is weird and too skinny.
(c) He is really tall and has horse teeth.
(d) He is handsome and a decent dancer.

12. What does the person who Tender meets at the cemetery say to him at first?
(a) "Get out of here."
(b) "You brought flowers."
(c) "Do I know you?"
(d) "I know you killed my brother."

13. Who does Fertility say her boss will ask for if he calls "phone Tender"?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Ryan.
(c) Shannon.
(d) Gwen.

14. What did the FBI do when they went to the Creedish colony to investigate the complaint?
(a) Questioned all the men.
(b) Took pictures of their homes and children.
(c) Took the adults into custody.
(d) Did head counts of all the children.

15. Where does Fertility tell Tender that Trevor took her when Trevor was still alive?
(a) To Disney World.
(b) On a hot-air balloon ride.
(c) On a camping trip.
(d) On a cruise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tender say that the tenders in the Creedish community were not allowed to have?

2. In chapter 36, who is Tender convinced that he received a phone call from?

3. When Fertility calls Tender over the suicide hotline, what does she say is her reason for never being able to date the guy from the cemetery?

4. When they learn that Tender is the last surviving member of the Creedish church, what is his caseworker afraid of?

5. Where does the caseworker come to meet Tender?

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