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Chapter One 1.What will happen to the pilot who supposedly “made a wrong turn”? 2.What does a person do after something wrong? What is everyone else’s response? (See Asher’s behavior on page 3 and 4) 3. Jonas is an Eleven. His little sister Lily is a Seven. What does this mean? 4. What does a Nurturer do? 5. How many people are in every family unit? Chapter Two 1. What is the Ceremony for the Ones? 2. Who do the Elders (the older leaders) go to when an important rule might need changing? 3. What is Lily’s “comfort object”? What wil1 happen to it when she becomes an Eight? Chapter Three 1. What happened to the apple when Jonas was playing catch with it? Chapter Four 1. What happens at the ceremony for an old person’s release? 2. How did Roberto look as he walked out the special door in the Release Room? Chapter Five 1. What are stirrings? 2. What are people given to prevent Stirrings? Chapter Six 1. What are jackets buttoned in the back supposed to teach? 2. Why isn’t Gabriel at the Naming and Placement Ceremony for the Ones? Chapter Seven 1. What does the Chief Elder say to each new Twelve as his assignment is given? 2. What happened to Jonas at the Ceremony of the Twelves that is so alarming to him? Chapter Eight 1. “Jonas has not been assigned. […] Jonas has been selected” (Lowry 60). Does this seem like a punishment or an honor? 2. What has Jonas been selected to be? What 5 qualities are important for this position? Chapter Nine 1. What happened to the last Receiver? 2. Why can’t Jonas ask others if they too are allowed to lie? Chapter 10 1. What is to be transmitted to Jonas, the new Receiver? Chapter 11 1. What three memories does Jonas receive? 1- 2- 3-
1. What can’t the people in Jonas’s world see? Chapter Thirteen 1. Jonas says, “We don’t dare to let people make choices on their own” (Lowry 98). Why according to Jonas is this necessary? Chapter Fourteen 1. What does Jonas experience in this chapter that no one else has? 2. When is The Giver consulted by the Committee of Elders? (see page 112) Chapter Fifteen 1. What painful memory is Jonas given? Chapter Sixteen 1. What, to Jonas, is the special joy of having a birthday party? 2. What “favorite memory” of The Giver’s does Jonas receive? What is so special about it to Jonas? Chapter Seventeen 1. Re-read page 135. If Jonas is attracted to Fiona, why doesn’t he go for a bike ride with her? (What makes him realize they could never have a relationship?) Chapter Eighteen 1. What would happen to the community if it lost Jonas? Chapter Nineteen 1. How does Jonas’s father react as he releases the baby? Chapter Twenty 1. What does The Giver say to Jonas’s father for having “released” the baby? 2. Why is Fiona able to “release” the old so easily if she cares so much for them? 3. Why doesn’t Jonas care if he is killed? 4. What is Jonas’s plan? 5. What is The Giver really saying when he says, “I want to be with my daughter.”? Chapter Twenty one 1. How does Jonas’s plan change? Why does it change? 2. How does Jonas hide from the heat-seeking devices on the airplanes? Chapter Twenty two 1. What causes Jonas’s happiness in this chapter? 2. In what way would Jonas have “starved” if he had stayed in the community? 3. What is waiting for them at the bottom of the hill? 4. You may find the ending a little confusing. Does it seem like a hopeful ending or not? 5. Can you think of a reason why the author, Lois Lowry might have chosen to have Jonas and the baby arrive to their new world at Christmas time? Note that the houses have “…red, blue and yellow lights that twinkled from trees…” (Lowry 179). Lowry, Lois. The Giver. |