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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 Fertility ask Tender about Trevor on their "date"?
(a) She asks if Tender misses Trevor.
(b) She asks if Trevor showed him pictures of her.
(c) She asks if Tender ever stayed over at Trevor's house.
(d) She asks if Tender loved Trevor.

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

3. After her first "date" with Tender, what does Fertility ask "phone Tender" when she calls him?
(a) If he is the same person.
(b) What he looks like.
(c) If he knew Trevor.
(d) If they are finally allowed to meet.

4. When did the tenders and biddies in the Creedish Church have to leave the colony?
(a) When they turned eighteen.
(b) When the church elders received a vision.
(c) After they received a vision.
(d) After they were baptized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tender when he first met his caseworker?

2. What was waiting for the tenders and biddies in the outside world once they left the colony?

3. Why does Tender look for the obituaries of the people who have killed themselves while on the phone with him?

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

5. What did the media label the Creedish Church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening as the novel opens?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Who does Tender encounter while on the bus with Fertility? How does he react and what comment does Fertility make about the encounter later?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. How does Tender feel about Fertility's dreams and what is her response to him?

10. After finding out that Tender Branson is the last remaining survivor of the Creedish church, who tries to get into contact with him and what do they want?

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