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Characters: 200• Question:• Who is the protagonist of The Giver?• Answer• Jonas

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Characters: 400• Question:• Who is the old man who’s name gets changed

when Jonas becomes Receiver-in-Training?• Answer• The Giver

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Characters: 600• Question:• Who is the trainee who studies the fine art of

release?• Answer• Fiona

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Characters: 800• Question:• Who works at the Department of Law and

Justice?• Answer• Jonas’s mother

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Characters: 1000• Question:• Who falls in the river and is lost, but is later

replaced?• Answer• Caleb

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Compare and Contrast: 200

• Question:• What do Jonas and Rosemary have in

common?• Answer• They were both Receivers-in-training.• (They were both loved by the Giver.)

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Compare and Contrast: 400

• Question:• What is one difference between Jonas and

Rosemary? (non-answer: one boy, one girl)• Answer• Jonas was successfully training; Rosemary

wanted to be released as a result of her training

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Compare and Contrast: 600

• Question:• What is the major difference between families

in Jonas’s community and families in our society?

• Answer• Our families experience love and emotional

attachment; their families are assigned.

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Compare and Contrast: 800

• Question:• What is one major difference between the

government of Jonas’s community and ours?• Answer• We have a president; they have the Elders.• We vote; Elders make the decisions.• We have freedom of choice; they don’t.

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Compare and Contrast: 1000

• Question:• Think about Gender roles in the community in

terms of equality. Are both genders treated equally? Give one example.

• Answer• Yes. Jonas’s dad’s job is just as important as

his mom’s.

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Memories: 200• Question:• What memory did Jonas attempt to give Lily?• Answer• The memory of the death of the elephant.

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Memories: 400• Question:• What did Jonas learn from the memory of

crashing on the sled?• Answer• Physical pain

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Memories: 600• Question:• How does Jonas help Gabe sleep?• Answer• He transfers the memory of the sailboat to

calm him.

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Memories: 800• Question:• Which memory caused Jonas to feel “loss,”

when he realized that he was no longer like his friends.

• Answer• The memory of war.

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Memories: 1000• Question:• Which is the most important memory that

Jonas is given? Why?• Answer• The Christmas memory; he learns love and

that his family does not love him. He begins to see that he is different from his family and the rest of the community.

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The Community: 200

• Question:• What do the numbers assigned to each

newchild signify?• Answer• The order of their birth

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The Community: 400

• Question:• What is the name of the land that lies beyond

the river?• Answer• Elsewhere

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The Community: 600

• Question:• What is the nightly ritual that Jonas hated?• Answer• The sharing of feelings

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The Community: 800

• Question:• Which month are the ceremonies held in?• Answer• December

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The Community: 1000

• Question:• What is the experience that each member of

the community takes a pill for?• Answer• Stirrings

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Misc.: 200• Question:• What event at the beginning of the book

scared Jonas? Why did it scare him?• Answer• The plane flying over the community; because

it was a new experience and planes never fly over the community.

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Misc.: 400• Question:• What is the cause of Jonas taking Gabriel away

from the community?• Answer• He finds out from his father that Gabe will be

released.

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Misc.: 600• Question:• Why do Jonas’s parents say that they don’t

love Jonas?• Answer• Because love is too vague a word. They don’t

understand the word because they’ve never experienced it.

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Misc.: 800• Question:• How does Jonas keep the search planes from

finding him and Gabriel?• Answer• He transmits the memories of cold so that the

heat-seeking planes don’t locate them.

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Misc.: 1000• Question:• Why is Jonas not permitted to apply for

Release?• Answer• If Jonas left the community, all of the

memories would go to the citizens and create chaos.

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Final Jeopardy: wager pts.

• Question:• What does the author think is more important:

the individual or the community? Why?• Answer• The author feels the individual is more

important because the reader sees the downfalls of putting the community first through Jonas’s experiences.

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