6 Literature
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Chapters 20-23 Review Questions
Mrs. Welch
Can you answer these questions?
Chapter 20
1. What does Jonas learn about what happens to the Old?
2. How does The Giver answer Jonas when he asked if The Giver has ever lied to him? (2)
3. Basically, what happens when a person is released?
4. What is the worst part of holding the memories? What needs to happen with memories? (2)
5. Jonas and The Giver decide that things have to change, so they think of a plan. Why will the Giver not go
with Jonas? (2)
6. What can the Giver no longer see in his weakened state?
7. What did The Giver first experience rather than seeing-beyond?
8. What does Jonas want The Giver to keep for himself?
9. What things does The Giver transmit to Jonas to help him on his journey? (2)
10. Why won’t anyone miss Jonas right away?
11. What would The Giver do when it was announced that Jonas had drowned in the river?
12. What will the Giver then do?
13. Where does The Giver want to go after he has helped the community deal with the memories?
14. Who do we find out Rosemary really is? (1)
Chapter 21
15. Who does Jonas take with him as he escapes?
16. What would have happened to Gabe the next morning if he had stayed in the community?
17. How did Jonas hide Gabe and himself from the search planes?
Chapter 22
18. What happened to Jonas with the bike?
19. What are some of the new things Jonas and Gabe see on their journey? List five of them in sentence form.
(5)
20. How had Jonas found food when theirs had run out?
21. What did Jonas do to help Gabe deal with being hungry?
22. What things did Jonas and Gabe experience that made it difficult for them to keep traveling? (2)
Chapter 23
23. What do the boys experience for the first time at the beginning of the chapter?
24. What did Jonas give them both to help them keep going?
25. What did Jonas find at the top of the hill?
26. Where do Jonas and Gabe go at the end of the story?