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The Giver: Study Guide

Chapter 1-11

Chapter 1
1. At the beginning of the story, what frightening memory does Jonas recall?
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2. What do you think “the release” of a citizen means?

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3. What is making Jonas feel apprehensive (uneasy)?

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Chapter 2
1. How do new children get their names and when do they receive them?
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2. Which rule is always broken, and why is Lily okay with breaking this rule?
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3. Who is the most important Elder and why?_________________________________________________________

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4. How do Elders make the Assignments?______________________________________________________________

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Chapter 3
1. Who comes to stay with Jonas’s family and why?___________________________________________________
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2. What Assignment does Jonas’s mother claim holds “very little honor”.
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3. Why was a public reprimand about snacks directed at Jonas? What does this tell you about
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4. What snack did Jonas take from the recreation center? What was strange about it that day?
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Chapter 4
1.Why is Jonas impressed by Benjamin, one of his groupmates?_____________________________________
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2. Are you more like Jonas or like Benjamin? Explain why.___________________________________________

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3. Why did Larissa find Edna’s release

boring?_________________________________________________________
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4. Where do you think the Old go after their Ceremony of Release?_________________________________

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Chapter 5
1.About whom does Jonas have a strange dream?_________________________________________What does
his mother call the feelings he experiences in his dream?____________________________________________

2. What does Jonas’s mother do to prevent the feelings from returning?____________________________

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3. Why do you think there is a treatment for these feelings in this

community?____________________
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Chapter 6
1.What will happen when Lily becomes a
nine?________________________________________________________
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2. Who is the “replacement child”? _________________________________ What happened to the first

child by this name?______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Describe the “Murmur of Replacement Ceremony”.________________________________________________
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4. How are matches (marriages) determined in this community?__________________________________

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Chapter 7
1.What is the system of discipline used for small children in this society?__________________________
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2. What happens to Jonas during the “Ceremony of Twelves”?_______________________________________

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Chapter 8
1.What assignment does Jonas receive?_______________________________________________________________
2. What five qualities does Jonas possess that qualify him for his new position?
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3. Earlier in the book, Jonas saw something differently that showed he has the “capacity to see
beyond”. What was that event?_________________________________________________________________________
During the ceremony, what happens that shows this same capacity?_______________________________
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4. Why will Jonas’s training be different than the training his peers receive for their jobs?
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5. How is the end of Jonas’s ceremony similar to the replacement ceremony witnessed earlier?
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Chapter 9
1. What did Jonas’ parents tell him happened to the previous person selected for his position?
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2. What is the last rule on Jonas’s instruction sheet?__________________________________________________

3. At the end of chapter nine, what is Jonas’s frightening realization about this rule?
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Chapter 10
1. What does the receiver’s attendant tell Jonas about the locks?____________________________________
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2. What is the biggest difference Jonas notices between the Receiver’s dwelling and his own?
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3. What memories will Jonas receive?__________________________________________________________________

Chapter 11
1. The weather in the community always the same. Why is this the case?__________________________
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2. What does the Receiver tell Jonas is not the same as power? Explain what he means by this.
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3. What is Jonas’s first unpleasant memory?___________________________________________________________

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4. Explain why the old man now asks Jonas to call him “the giver”?_________________________________
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The Giver: Study Guide
Chapter 12-23
Chapter 12
1. How is Gabriel progressing since he has been staying with Jonas’s family?
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2. What dream does Jonas continue having?
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3. Why did Jonas feel uncomfortable listening to all the Twelves about their first day of training?
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4. What changed with Fiona when Jonas “saw beyond” ?
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5. What is Jonas seeing with his “capacity to see beyond”?
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6. Why does the Receiver say the community gave up before his time?
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Chapter 13
1.Why does Jonas think it is unfair that his community lacks color?
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2. What does Jonas value over freedom of choice?
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3. What animal does Jonas learn really existed from the memories he’s being given?
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4. ​What horrible memory did the Giver give to Jonas this time?
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5. Why would it be difficult for Jonas to have a spouse?
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6. What happened 10 years ago?
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7. Why was it important that the Receiver keep all the memories?
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8. Jonas told the Receiver to start giving him some painful memories? Why?
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Chapter 14
1. How was the second snow/sled experience different from the first?
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2. Jonas is now regularly given memories of pain. How does the The Giver end each session and why?
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3. Why didn't the elders decide to allow birthmothers have four babies instead of three?
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4. Why is real reason the assignment of Receiver such an important position in the community?
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5. What was Gabriel's main problem?
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6. What did they do when a birthmother had twins?
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7. How did Jonas calm down Gabriel?
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Chapter 15
1.. What was wrong with the Giver and how does Jonas help him?
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2. What memory did the Giver give to Jonas?
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3. Why do you think the Giver ask Jonas to forgive him?
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Chapter 16
1. What were some of the good memories that were given to Jonas?
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2.What was the Giver's favorite memory that was given away?
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3.What new feeling did Jonas get to experience?
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4. Why do Jonas’s parents discourage him from using the word “love”?
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5. What happened when Gabriel was taken away from Jonas?
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6. What did Jonas decide to do at the end of the chapter? Why?
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Chapter 17
1.What has happened to Jonas in the last four weeks?
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2. Why does Jonas now classify his family’s emotions of anger and sadness as shallow and unreal?
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3.How does Jonas react when he happens upon his friends playing the war game?
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4. Jonas experiences some feelings of loss in this chapter. What does he miss?
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5 .What would Jonas’ father do the next day when the identical twins were born?
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6. Who takes the baby after Jonas’s father is finished with his job?
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Chapter 18
1. What was the name of the previous Receiver-in-Training?
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2. What was the cause of her failure?
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3. Where did she go?
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4. What happened to the memories after she “left”?
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5. What happened to the community after her departure?
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Chapter 19
1. How was Jonas able to watch a release?
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2. Describe the release that Jonas witnessed.
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3. How does Jonas realize what has just happened? What previous memory does he think about?
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4. What does it mean to be released?
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5. Where did Jonas’s father place the baby?
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6. How was Rosemary released?
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Chapter 20
1. What does Jonas tell the the Giver after watching the release? What does the Giver do?
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2. How are people like Jonas’s father able to carry out the releases so easily?
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3. What do Jonas and the Giver decide to do to make the community change?
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4. Why must the Giver remain in the community?
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5. How does the Giver prepare Jonas to carry out their plan?
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6. How will the Giver explain Jonas’s disappearance?
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Chapter 21
1. Why does Jonas leave the community earlier than planned?
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2. What three crimes did Jonas commit when he left?

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3. Explain how Jonas and Gabriel make their escape?
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4. How did Jonas keep the search planes from seeing them?
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5. How did Jonas know that the community was starting to give up the search?
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Chapter 22
1. How did the landscape change?
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2. Now that the fear of searchers was gone, what did Jonas fear now?
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3. What does Gabe mistake for a plane? What else do they see?
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4. There was a desperate fear building in Jonas. What was it?
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5. Why were Jonas and Gabe crying?
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6. For what additional reason was Jonas crying?
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Chapter 23
1. How did Jonas try to warm up Gabe?
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2. Why was it so difficult to travel?
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3. Why did he suddenly become happy?
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4. What was waiting for him at the top of the hill?
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5. What was the first thing that Jonas saw in Elsewhere?
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6. What did he hear for the first time?
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7. How did he know this place would take care of Gabe and him?
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8. Did Jonas really see what he saw or was it all part of him losing consciousness and slowly dying? Backup
your thoughts with evidence.
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