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

2. What does Fertility do when Tender upsets her on their third date?
(a) She leaves.
(b) She hits him.
(c) She yells at him.
(d) She ignores him.

3. Who does Fertility think Tender is when she sees him at the cemetery?
(a) A ghost.
(b) Her brother's lover.
(c) The cemetery groundskeeper.
(d) A priest.

4. What did Tender do before he let all the passengers off of the hijacked plane?
(a) He served the passengers dinner.
(b) He went to the bathroom.
(c) He learned how to fly the plane.
(d) He made them beg for their lives.

5. What is the name of Tender's brother's wife?
(a) Biddy Parker.
(b) Suzy Jones.
(c) Biddy Jones.
(d) Biddy Gleason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was started to help protect remaining members of the Creedish Church "cult"?

2. What event would occur when God called the Creedish to save them from apocalypse?

3. What does the pilot of the hijacked plane tell Tender will stay on until the plane crashes?

4. How does the caseworker feel when she cures Tender of his "diseases"?

5. How does Tender feel about the flowers at the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tender's job and the duties involved.

2. Explain the relationship between Fertility and Tender in chapter 36. What are the differences between Fertility's impressions of the Tender she sees in person and the Tender she speaks to on the phone?

3. After the agent arranges to pick Tender up, what does Tender call Fertility from the plane to ask her and what is her response?

4. What is happening as the novel opens?

5. How does naming or rank work in the Creedish Church culture?

6. When Tender asks Fertility about the guy that she met in the cemetery, what thoughts and observations does she share about him?

7. What is the discussion between Tender and his caseworker after he believes he has taken a call from the killer of the Creedish survivors? Why does she tell him not to worry?

8. What diseases does the caseworker diagnose Tender with, and why does she do this?

9. After Tender's first "date" with Fertility, he returns to his apartment and picks up the ringing phone, thinking it will be Fertility. Who is on the other end and what is the conversation between Tender and the caller?

10. Why does Tender steal the flowers from the cemetery and what does he say he is doing with them when people ask?

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