The Giver

Question 1

At the beginning of the story what frightening memory does Jonas recall?

Answer 1

The airplane flying over head

Question 2

What does the release of a contributing citizen represent?

Answer 2

They die because they are kicked out of the community

Question 3

What is making Jonas feel apprehensive?

Answer 3

He is worried about his assignment

Question 4

What ritual does Jonas’s family do every night?

Answer 4

They share their feelings

Question 5

What makes Lilly angry about the visiting group of children?

Answer 5

The other kid didn’t follow the rules

Question 6

Describe Jonas’s fathers profession

Answer 6

A nurturer

Question 7

what does Jonas’s mother do?

Answer 7

A lawyer

Question 8

How do new children get their names, and when do they receive them?

Answer 8

Elders pick them, at the naming ceremony

Question 9

Which rule is almost always broken?

Answer 9

The brothers teach their sisters how to dies a bike

Question 10

Who is the most important elder?

Answer 10

1. The giver 2. chief elder

Question 11

How do elders make assignments?

Answer 11

They observe the kids over the years

Question 12

At what age are children’s “comfort objects” taken away?

Answer 12

8 years old

Question 13

What assignment does Jonas’s mother claim holds very little honor?

Answer 13

Being a birth mother

Question 14

Why was a public reprimand about snacks recently directed at Jonas?

Answer 14

Because he took an apple from school home

Question 15

Why is Jonas impressed by Benjamin one of his groupmates?

Answer 15

He is doing well at his volunteer work and he knows where he belongs

Question 16

What can cause a Twelve to receive a delay Assignment?

Answer 16

Not doing enough hours

Question 17

Where does Jonas see Ashers bike? Why doesn’t he usually volunteer with him?

Answer 17

The house of old. He doesn’t think he takes anything seriously.

Question 18

Whose release ceremony did Larissa find boring?

Answer 18

Edna

Question 19

Where do the people go after they are released?

Answer 19

No one knows

Question 20

About whom did Jonas dream about?

Answer 20

Fiona

Question 21

What did Jonas’s mother call the feelings that Jonas described from his dream?

Answer 21

Stirrings

Question 22

What does Jonas’s mother give him to prevent his odd feelings from returning?

Answer 22

A pill

Question 23

What will happen when Lilly becomes nine?

Answer 23

A bike

Question 24

Why must Jonas’s father sit apart from the family in the beginning of the ceremony?

Answer 24

Takes care of the little babies before they are given away

Question 25

Who is the replacement child? What happened to the first child?

Answer 25

Caleb. The first one drowned

Question 26

What happens during the tens ceremony?

Answer 26

They cut their hair

Question 27

For how long are matches monitored before a couple can apply for a child?

Answer 27

3 years

Question 28

For how long does an elected Chief Elder hole his or her position?

Answer 28

10 years

Question 29

Why is Asher not assigned to be an Instructor Of The Threes?

Answer 29

Because of his language and he likes to fool around

Question 30

What assignment does Fiona get?

Answer 30

Caretaker of the Old

Question 31

Why does Jonas think The Chief skipped him?

Answer 31

He thought he did something wrong

Question 32

For what does the chief apologize?

Answer 32

For skipping Jonas

Question 33

What assignment does Jonas get?

Answer 33

The reciever

Question 34

What qualities does Jonas posses that qualify him for his new position?

Answer 34

He has Intelligence, integrity, courage, and wisdom