THE COMMUNITY
Q: What rule requires citizens to speak carefully and avoid exaggeration?
precision of language
Q: What number is Jonas at the Ceremony of Twelve?
19
Who trains Jonas?
The Giver
Q: What was the first memory Jonas received?
snow
Q: What special rule allows Jonas to do something others cannot?
he can lie
Q: What happens to identical twins in the community?
Smaller one is released
Q: What ability begins to separate Jonas from others early on?
seeing beyond
Q: What is the name of Jonas’s Assignment?
Receiver of Memory
Q: What holiday memory introduces warmth and family love?
Christmas
Q: What happens when someone is released from Elsewhere?
They never return/die
Q: What is the purpose of bicycles given at age Nine?
Independence and responsibility
Q: Why does Jonas stop taking his pills?
to keep his emotions/stirrings
Q: What painful memory teaches Jonas about physical suffering?
the broken leg / warfare injury
Q: What emotion does Jonas realize is missing in his family?
love
Q: What does Jonas secretly watch that changes everything?
the video of a release
Q: Why are people not allowed to see color?
To maintain Sameness/To make sure people dont make the wrong choice
Q: What causes Jonas to feel isolated from his friends?
his knowledge and memories
Q: Why does The Giver suffer?
he carries all the community’s memories
Q: What memory deeply disturbs Jonas involving violence?
war
Q: Who performs the release Jonas witnesses?
his father
Q: What is the real purpose of release?
Killing
Q: What shocking realization does Jonas have about his father?
that he releases (kills) infants
Q: What plan do Jonas and The Giver begin to form?
Jonas escaping to release memories back to the community
Q: What realization makes Jonas question the entire community?
emotions and choices are being controlled
Q: What is the community trying to avoid by eliminating memories?
pain, suffering, and difficult choices