The Giver- Chapters 8-17
Chapter 8
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What happened in ch. 7 that caused Jonas to be concerned/ worried?
How did this make Jonas feel?
What was Jonas selected to do?
Why did the committee of Elders need to be so careful when they picked the next receiver of
memory?
What qualities or traits did Jonas possess to qualify him for the job of receiver?
What will Jonas have to experience in his training?
What do you think they mean by pain- other than what he experienced scraping his knew or
slamming his finger into the door?
What happened to the audience when Jonas was looking at them?
How did Jonas feel about his new assignment?
What do you think the receiver of memory does?
Chapter 9 (vocab: solemnly, terrifying)
1. How did Jonas feel about his assignment?
2. Name 1 rule for the receiver of memory. Then say why you think they made this rule for Jonas?
3. Why would Jonas not know if someone was lying if he asked them “Do you lie?”
Chapter 10 (vocab: upholstered, tentatively)
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Why do you think no doors were locked in the community?
Why was the receiver’s door locked?
Describe the receiver’s room.
What were the receiver’s eyes lokie?
What questions did Jonas ask the current receiver?
Whose memories were Jonas to receive?
What was the first memory Jonas received?
What could the receiver do to the speaker?
Chapter 11
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What new words did Jonas learn?
What was the first memory Jonas received? Did he like it?
What did the giver mean by sameness?
What was Jonas’ 2nd memory?
What was the 3rd memory?
Chapter 12
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What three things had changed when Jonas “Saw beyond?”
What is the first color Jonas learns to see?
What did the Giver do to help Jonas understand the concept of color?
Why did the community choose sameness?
Chapter 13
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What is the something lost by sameness?
What is one benefit to sameness?
How did Jonas feel about sameness?
What happens to the memories once they have been given?
Chapter 14 (vocab: ominous)
1. What caused Jonas pain?
2. How did Jonas put Gabriel to sleep?
Chapter 15
1. What memory was causing pain for the Giver?
2. Describe the memory.
Chapter 16
1. Name happy memories Jonas experienced?
2. What was the Giver’s favorite?
3. Why does Jonas’ community not have grandparents? Name the stages of a person’s life in the
community (or where they live when their kids leave home)
4. How does Jonas’ family perceive love?
5. Why do you think Jonas did not take his pill?
Chapter 17
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How were the feelings Jonas felt different than those felt by others?
What feelings would you miss if you lived with sameness?
Why did Jonas not want his friends to play the game of war?
Where is elsewhere?
Chapter 18
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Why did the Giver sometimes wish to be released?
What happened to Rosemary?
What happened to her memories?
How did the Giver respond?
How would you have responded?
Chapter 19
1. Why did they release the twin?
2. What does it mean to be released?
3. How do they perform a release?
Chapter 20
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What was Jonas response to watching at release?
What would happen if Jonas left?
What was different for the Giver in the beginning of his training than it had been for Jonas?
Explain Jonas’ escape plan.
Who was the Giver’s child?
Chapter 21 (vocab: augmented)
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Why did Jonas need to escape before he had planned?
What did he take with him?
Why did he take Gabriel?
What was Jonas’ new plan?
What was sent to look for Jonas and Gabriel?
Chapter 22
1. How did the landscape change?
2. What did he see?
3. What was Jonas starving for now that he left? What would he have starved for had he stayed?
Chapter 23
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Where was Jonas going?
Why could he not ride the bike anymore?
How did he keep warm?
Why was it cold?
How did he get to elsewhere?
What do you think happens to Jonas and Gabriel?