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What is the “Ceremony of 12?"
What is a ceremony where 11's are assigned their jobs for life.
What do we learn about birthmothers?
What is they are pampered for 3 years, then give birth to 3 babies in 3 years and then do jobs of labor.
What does Jonas notice about the apple?
What is it changes as he throws it to Asher.
Where does Jonas spend his volunteer hours?
What is he's volunteered at many places over the years and hasn't picked one job he likes.
Why wasn’t Gabriel at the naming?
What is Jonas' dad convinced the other nurturers that Gabe needs another year to grow. He's labeled Uncertain.
What was the Ceremony of Loss?
What is when someone dies and the community says the person's name over and over until it's forgotten. This is not a Release Ceremony.
What is Asher's assignment.
What is Assistant Recreation Director.
What is Jonas selected to do?
What is he is selected as Receiver of Memory.
Why was he selected for this assignment?
What is he can see beyond.
What is the morning ritual?
What is to talk about your dreams
How was Jonas disciplined for taking an apple home?
What is the announcer on the loud speaker announced to the community that it was against the rules to take food from the rec. center.
Why must Jonas start taking a pill every day?
What is to suppress sexual feelings
What seems to be the purpose of the volunteer hours?
What is to see what your aptitude will be, but also so the Elders can observe what you're best at.
Why is number Nineteen skipped in the Assignments?
What is Jonas' number is skipped because he is selected as Receiver and this is an important and unusual role.
What was so different about the newchild?
What is he has pale (blue) eyes like Jonas.
What about the society is revealed by the reaction to eye color?
What is everyone is the same. Nobody wants to be different. Jonas is embarrassed about his eye color.
How are children taught in Jonas’s society?
What is they are hit with a thin stick until they learn.
Discuss how people get a spouse in Jonas’s community.
What is a committee chooses your spouse for you according to attributes and characteristics.
Why is Mother so appalled when Lilly suggests she’d like to be a Birthmother?
What is it is considered an inferior job for lazy girls who aren't too bright.
Why are the rules for Jonas particularly puzzling?
What is he can be rude, he can ask community members anything and he can lie.
What rules does Jonas’ father disobey?
What is he finds the name of the baby and calls him by his name as much as possible, but only in the privacy of the Dwelling.
From whose point of view is The Giver told?
What is 3rd person limited
What do the numbers mean for each person?
What is it depends on when you were born in your birth year. Only 50 children are born in a year.
How will Jonas’ life change as he trains to be Receiver of Memory?
What is he will be apart from the community and experience physical pain.
What does the story of Asher’s mistake at the age of three show you about the community
What is the people do not tolerate differences, the want everyone the same and making mistakes are considered weakness.