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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. Who does Tender want to talk to his caseworker about?
(a) His family.
(b) Fertility Hollis.
(c) His employers.
(d) His landlord.

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

3. What does Fertility tell "phone Tender" about her boss?
(a) He's kind of like her booking agent.
(b) He gave her a raise.
(c) He assaulted her.
(d) He is mean.

4. Tender gives detailed instructions to his employers on the proper way to eat a certain food? What was that food?
(a) Steak.
(b) Oysters.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Lobster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tender's name come from?

2. What does "phone Tender" initially tell Fertility she has to do before he can meet her in person?

3. What flight did the main character hijack?

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

5. What do a lot of the Creedish Church members have issues with, including Tender?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tender reveal is the practice for the tenders and biddies before they go out into the real world? What do they do in preparation?

2. What method does Tender employ to teach the couple how to eat the lobster, and what does he discover as he is eating it?

3. What did Tender Branson learn in school as a tender, and what rules is he supposed to follow in the outside world?

4. What is Tender's strategy for his first "date" with Fertility and a possible relationship with her?

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

6. What is Tender told about the outside world the night before he leaves the Creedish Church District, and who is the source of the information?

7. What is happening as the novel opens?

8. Why is Adam allowed to get married while Tender is sent out into the world to work?

9. How does Tender come to receive calls intended for a suicide prevention hotline and why does he continue to take them?

10. What does Fertility Hollis ask Tender when she calls his suicide hotline, and what reasons does she give for thinking that it is a good time for her to commit suicide?

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