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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On their cross country trip, when they make a stop, what does Tender beg Fertility to get for him at a gas station?

2. What does Fertility make Tender promise her?

3. What do people do when Tender tells everyone on the plane to get down?

4. How do Tender, Fertility and Adam decide to travel to escape from the Super Bowl?

5. How does Adam describe the Creedish Church elders?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the bathroom scene in the airport in New Orleans right before the Super Bowl.

2. What evidence do the police have to suspect Tender of the murders of the agent and the caseworker?

3. Where do Tender and Fertility stay each night on their trip home from Nebraska?

4. What does Adam say that the Creedish did to the tenders and the biddies to discourage them from having sex?

5. Why is it important for Tender to get married at the Super Bowl?

6. Describe the PornFill project and what it ultimately does.

7. Once they return home, where do Fertility and Tender spend the night? Who sees Tender and what is ironic about the whole situation?

8. Why does Tender agree to everything that the agent and PR team want to do to him in New York?

9. What does the agent and his team do to Tender while he is in New York? Why?

10. What happens after Tender's big "miracle" at the Super Bowl? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the first part of the novel, Tender has a job as a house cleaner for a very odd couple. Discuss Tender's job and what it entails. What does Tender have to say about the personal nature the job? How did Tender get this job and why does he have so much training and knowledge in this area? Give a description of Tender's employers.

Essay Topic 2

This novel has a unique structure. Instead of starting at chapter 1 and ascending chronologically, the novel starts at chapter 47 and chronologically descends. The page numbers also descend, as the novel starts on page 289. What is the purpose of structuring the novel in this fashion? What effect does this have on the novel and on Tender Branson's story?

Essay Topic 3

Themes are a vital part of the complete package of a novel, presenting unifying and recurrent ideas that tie a novel together and give the it meaning. The novel "Survivor" hits on many important themes. Discuss some of the themes of the novel including religion, loyalty, perception, and the relationship between power and sex.

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