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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. Where does Tender discover his caseworker dead?
(a) At his employers' house.
(b) In her house.
(c) At his house.
(d) At the grocery store.

2. What does Tender say happens now when he sees a fellow Creedish Church member?
(a) They smile at each other.
(b) They both hang their heads in disgrace.
(c) They hug each other.
(d) They try to avoid each other at all costs.

3. How does the pilot get off of the hijacked plane?
(a) He deplanes with the other passengers.
(b) Tender throws him out the emergency exit.
(c) He parachutes out.
(d) He stays on the plane until it crashes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tender do after the pilot leaves the plane?

2. On what day of the week does Tender have his first "date" with Fertility?

3. After her first "date" with Tender, what does Fertility ask "phone Tender" when she calls him?

4. After Tender gets his mysterious call, who does he try continuously to call without success?

5. How long are Tender's brother and his brother's wife in the outside world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening as the novel opens?

2. What do Fertility and Tender do on their third date after they get off of the bus?

3. 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?

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. How does Tender feel about the caseworker's death?

6. What is the exchange between the pilot and Tender Branson before the pilot leaves the hijacked plane?

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why does Tender have a caseworker?

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