The Giver Test Flashcards
What is the role of birthmothers in the community?
Birthmothers spend 3 years and most have three children, and them become laborers until they are old.
What look does Jonas have and what might it represent.
Jonas has pale eyes, and could receive memories. He can also see beyond.
What did Jonas know about the apple he was tossing.
It was red
What did Lily do for her volunteer hours? Jonas, Asher, Fiona?
Lily worked at the nurturing center. Jonas, Asher and Fiona worked at the house of the old.
What was Jonas’s families morning ritual? Why was this hard for him?
Jonas’s family shared their dreams and it was hard for Jonas, because he rarely dreamed.
What did the nines get at their Ceremony?
The nines get bikes.
What was Jonas’s pleasurable dream? What did he do to get rid of them?
Jonas got stirrings, and had to take a pill daily to stop them.
After what age would age no longer matter?
Twelve
Why did Asher get smacked a lot when he was three?
Asher would say smack instead of snack. This was a precision of language.
How do the elevens receive their assignments?
They are observed by the committee of elders.
How does Jonas feel when the Chief Elder passes him.
He feels shameful because he hasn’t been chosen.
What was in Jonas’s instruction folder? What was the final rule on his instruction sheet? Why was that surprising to him?
He was allowed to lie. That was surprising because it was considered a major transgression.
What was the job of the Receiver of Memory?
The receiver gets all of the memories from the past so the community doesn’t experience them.
What happens at a releasing ceremony? Think the old.
They have a ceremony about the person’s life and then they inject them with a formula.
What was the first memory Jonas got? What was the first pain Jonas got? What was the first REAL pain?
Sliding down a sled, then a sunburn, and crashing a sled.
What does Jonas call the Reciever? Why?
Jonas calls him the Giver because he will be giving the memories to Jonas.
What happens to the memory when the Giver gives the memory to Jonas?
The Giver looses it.
How does Jonas help Gabe sleep at night.
Jonas gives Gabe the memory of a sailboat on a lake.
What was thee memory of warfare?
There was a filthy boy who was begging for thirst.
What was the cause of Rosemary’s failure? Where did she go?
Rosemary was given the Memory of loss and loneliness. This changed forever and she applied for release. Then all the memories spilled out.
What actually happens at the release of a twin? What does it mean to be released?
A twin is weighed, and the lighter twin is out in a carton, injected with a formula, and sent down a chute. A release is when you are injected with a formula which will kill you.
What does the Giver say the worst part about holding memories is?
The loneliness
How did the Giver first experience “beyond”?
Hearing beyond
How does Jonas have a change of heart about the community?
After seeing the release of a twin
