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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. Where does Tender bury Adam?
2. How often is Tender's television show on the air?
3. What started the investigation into the Creedish Church?
4. What does Tender begin to have on his journey with Fertility and Adam?
5. What is the agent actually taking but calling ChemoSolv?
Short Essay Questions
1. Tender has a weekly show called Peace of Mind where he sits down with a well-known journalist for interviews. What is Tender's response to the journalist's question about Tender's childhood? Is it accurate?
2. How do Tender and Adam "lose" Fertility on their cross-country trip after the Super Bowl?
3. Where does Tender get the miracles he predicts on Tender Branson's Miracle Minute?
4. Describe the PornFill project and what it ultimately does.
5. Describe the bathroom scene in the airport in New Orleans right before the Super Bowl.
6. How do Fertility, Tender and Adam plan to escape New Orleans after the Super Bowl? Where are they headed?
7. What does Adam convince Tender to do after he is injured in the car crash? How does he do it?
8. What explanations does Fertility use to assure Tender that he did not actually kill Trevor and Adam?
9. Is Fertility having more feelings for Tender after the Super Bowl? What evidence is there of this?
10. What is happening in Tender and Fertility's relationship in chapters 23 and 22?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
When Tender becomes the last survivor, he is immediately inundated with phone calls from producers and agents wanting to turn him into a religious celebrity. What is the fascination with Tender as a religious "superstar"? Describe the character of the agent and what happens to Tender when their relationship begins. What does the character of the agent symbolize? Why is he referred to simply as "the agent"?
Essay Topic 3
Tender seems to be lacking self-esteem throughout the novel, and he never really has much of his own life. Tender becomes a sort of puppet for the people in his life who manipulate him and use him for their own purposes. Who in the novel does Tender seem to be a "puppet" for? How is he treated by the people in his life, from his employers to Fertility to the agent to the Creedish Church? What effect does this have on this character?
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