Chapters 1-2 (8 points)
1. Vocabulary: Use each of the following vocabulary words correctly in the sentences below:
adherence, aptitude, enhance
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A quick blood transfusion will _______________________ the injured soldier’s chance of survival.
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In most communities, the police are responsible for enforcing _____________________ to the law.
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It’s important to choose a career based upon your own natural ______________________.
2. What do you think might happen to someone who is released from the community?
3. Based on your reading, who is the most important elder in the community? Why do you think this is
the case? (2 points)
4. Based on the discussion during the ritual telling of feelings, what information did you learn about the
community? (2 Points)
Chapters 3-5 (7 points)
1. Vocabulary: Use each of the following vocabulary words correctly in the sentences below:
chastisement, remorse, bewildered.
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Select a toy for your little brother because he will only become _____________________ by the many
choices in the toy store.
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Breaking minor rules results only in gentle _____________________.
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I knew my son felt _____________________ for teasing his sister when he offered to take her to the
movies.
2. Why were Gabe’s eyes of such interest to Jonas?
3. Why did Jonas – risking the humiliation of public chastisement - take an apple from the recreation
area?
4. Based on the reading, what effect did the pills have on Jonas and the other people who took them?
Why do you think all adults were required to take them? (2 points)
Chapters 6-8 (16 points)
1. Vocabulary: Antonyms are word with opposite or nearly opposite, meanings.
 Match the word in column A to its ANTONYM in column B.
 Then use the words in column A to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.
Column A
________ 1. exuberant
Column B
a. carelessly
________ 2. apprehensive
b. acquire
________ 3. meticulously
c. downcast
________ 4. relinquish
d. tranquil
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Jonas’s family pledged to _____________________ Gabe once he was assigned to his own family unit.
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_____________________ applause greeted the naming of each award winner.
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Jonas believed the community was so _____________________ structured that anyone could fit in.
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Elevens who had shown no special ability or interest were _____________________ about their Life
Assignment.
2. What did the family have to do in order for Gabriel to be allowed a second year of Nurturing?
3. Using details from the story, what is the difference between RELEASE and LOSS based on the way the
community uses these words? (2 points)
4. What rule had Asher broken for confusing the words “snack” and “smack”?
5. Using details from the book, besides the capacity to see beyond, what are the four qualities that a
Receiver of Memory must possess? (4 points)
Chapters 9-11 (9 points)
1. Vocabulary: Use the context to determine the meaning of the underlined word in each of the following
sentences. Circle its meaning from the choices listed below each sentence.
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To protect people from nighttime bombings, there was a prohibition against going out after dark.
a. encouragement b. ban
c. flight
d. permission
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Instruction in learning to read is an integral part of most first grade programs.
a. essential
b. intense
c. abhorrent
d. unimportant
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Although some people find a ride on a rollercoaster to be exhilarating, I find it terrifying.
a. hilarious
b. frightening
c. tedious
d. thrilling
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In the fall, the number of daylight hours diminishes.
a. lessens
b. expands
c. vanishes
d. increases
2. Using details from your reading, which item in the list of duties and responsibilities frightened Jonas?
Why did this frighten him? (2 points)
3. What unique feature did the Annex (NOT the room inside the annex) have that no other building had?
4. Using details from the story, what two lessons did Jonas learn about the sun? (2 points)
Chapters 12-13 (9 points)
1. Vocabulary: Choose a word from the Word Box to replace each underlined word with a more
descriptive word that has a similar meaning. Write the word on the line below the sentence.
WORD BOX
assimilated, phenomenon, skeptically, vitality
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Jonas told The Giver that he had witnessed a strange occurrence when he looked at an apple and
at his friend Fiona’s hair. ____________________________
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Jonas’s life took on a liveliness that his friends’ lives lacked. ________________________
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Lily answered doubtfully when Jonas told her that once elephants really existed.
____________________________
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When memories were released accidentally, people panicked until the memories were absorbed.
____________________________
2. Using details from the book, what did the Giver call the visual phenomena that Jonas witnessed?
What did this reveal about the community? (2 points)
3. According to the reading, what was it called when the community made the choice to move away from
seeing color.
4. Why was it important for the community to have a person who could “see beyond”?
5. Why was The Giver bitter about the Council of Elders?
Chapters 14-16 (8 points)
1. Based on your reading, how was Jonas’s second experience with snow different from his first?
(2 points)
2. According to the Giver, why did Jonas have to receive and store memories of pain?
3. How did Jonas try to solve Gabriel’s fretfulness at night?
4. Based on your reading, list one advantage and one disadvantage of the family unit in Jonas’s
community AND compare to the family as we know it in our society. (4 points)
Chapters 17-19 (8 points)
1. How did Jonas react to the children’s war game?
2. According to your reading, why did the community refer to the former Receiver-in-training as a
failure? How did this failure affect the rules that applied to Jonas? (2 points)
3. What shocked Jonas when he viewed his father “releasing” one of the newborn twins?
4. Based on your reading, do you sympathize with Rosemary and do you think she was brave or
cowardly? Explain your answers (4 points)
Chapter 20 (5 points)
1. Why would Fiona, a trainee in the care of the old, accept the practice of releasing the old?
2. Why was the Giver now ready to make a plan for change?
3. Why did the Giver decide to stay behind to help the community?
4. Based on your reading, why did Jonas and The Giver choose the December Ceremony as the time to
implement their plan? (2 points)
Chapters 21-23 (12 points)
1. Vocabulary: Use the following words to fill in the blanks in the sentences below:
 augment, fugitives, lethargy, taut.
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Facing starvation, Jonas combed the fields to ______________________ the food supply.
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Together the ______________________ slept through the first dangerous day.
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After endless miles on the bicycle, Jonas’s leg muscles were ______________________.
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The memory of sunshine helped Jonas shake off the feeling of ______________________ and restored his
will to live.
2. How did Father’s sweet, sing-song voice affect Jonas on their last evening together?
3. How was Jonas able to use memories to foil the search planes?
4. Using details in the book, besides fooling the planes, name two other ways that memories helped Jonas
during the journey? (2 points)
5. Using details in the book, what do you think happened to Jonas at the end of the book? (4 points)