We'll Take Their Word for It
By the Numbers
Cpecial Ceremonies
Breaking Is Bad!
The Plot Thickens
100

Family

Family Unit

100

Each family can have this many children

Two

100

This is the last of the public Ceremonies

Ceremony of Twelves

100

True or False: It is against the rules for any community member to see another one naked

False

100

Jonas gets chastised for bringing this food item back to his room

Apple

200

Job

Assignment 

200

Lily is this age at the beginning of the book

Seven

200

True or False: Families name their babies at the Ceremony of One

False

200

Most children break this rule before they get the privilege at the age of 9

Bike riding

200

Specifically, how people in the community are released

Lethal injection
300

Baby

Newchild

300

Each birthmother can have this many babies

Three

300
The Ceremony in which they honor differences

Ceremony of Twelve

300

They use this "weapon" to punish Threes who misuse language

Discipline wand

300

Jonas gives Gabriel this memory to help him sleep

Sailboat ride on a lake

400

The killing of the old, newchildren, and those who break the rules three times

Release

400

A community member may legally ride a bike at this age

Nine

400

This Instructor is responsible for teaching language acquistion

Instructor of Threes

400

There is a rule against doing this with one's tunic on breezy days

Opening it

400
This injury makes it hard for Jonas to pedal his bike

Ankle

500
Dinner or supper

Evening Meal

500

This is Jonas's number when he is born

Nineteen

500

Jonas sat between these two people at the Ceremony of Twelve

Fiona, Pierre

500

Lily was breaking this rule in her dream

Riding a bike

500

This community member has been labeled "uncertain"

Gabriel

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