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Final Jeopardy: wager pts
Characters: 200
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Question:
Who is the protagonist of The Giver?
Answer
Jonas
Characters: 400
• Question:
• Who is the old man who’s name gets changed
when Jonas becomes Receiver-in-Training?
• Answer
• The Giver
Characters: 600
• Question:
• Who is the trainee who studies the fine art of
release?
• Answer
• Fiona
Characters: 800
• Question:
• Who works at the Department of Law and
Justice?
• Answer
• Jonas’s mother
Characters: 1000
• Question:
• Who falls in the river and is lost, but is later
replaced?
• Answer
• Caleb
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.)
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
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.
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.
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.
Memories: 200
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Question:
What memory did Jonas attempt to give Lily?
Answer
The memory of the death of the elephant.
Memories: 400
• Question:
• What did Jonas learn from the memory of
crashing on the sled?
• Answer
• Physical pain
Memories: 600
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Question:
How does Jonas help Gabe sleep?
Answer
He transfers the memory of the sailboat to
calm him.
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.
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.
The Community:
200
• Question:
• What do the numbers assigned to each
newchild signify?
• Answer
• The order of their birth
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
The Community:
1000
• Question:
• What is the experience that each member of
the community takes a pill for?
• Answer
• Stirrings
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.