The Giver Chapters 1-2
This is the rule regarding families and the children who are assigned to each family unit.
What is "two children--one male, one female--to each family unit?"
She called attention to Jonas and Gabriel having similar, light-colored eyes.
Who is Lily?
What is Lily happy to wear for just one more year?
What are hair ribbons?
When children misbehave during school, their teachers might use this to discipline them.
What is a thin, flexible tool that delivers a stinging pain when it strikes?
Jonas is told he must not discuss his training with anyone. What rule number is this?
What is rule number 4?
This gives instructions to citizens of the community throughout the day.
What is the voice over the loudspeaker? Or, who is the Announcer?
This Assignment, according to Mother, has very little honor.
What is Birthmother?
The Treatment (pills) that is given when children start to mature doesn't stop being given until citizens arrive here.
What is the House of the Old?
Fiona was such a sensitive and gentle girl, and this Assignment was perfect for her.
What is Caretaker of the Old?
Jonas is shocked to discover that his rules for training empower him to do this.
What is lying?
In Chapter 1, it is clear that The Giver is a dystopian novel. Name one element of dystopian literature that is clearly presented in Chapter 1.
What is conformity and/or surveillance?
These people take care of newchildren from birth until they are assigned to a family unit.
What/who are Nurturers?
Gabriel spends his nights with Jonas's family unit for a couple of reasons. Name one reason.
What is an inability to sleep soundly or gain the appropriate amount of weight?
The crowd watching the Ceremony of Twelve noticed this immediately, and everyone became anxious.
What is the Chief Elder skipping Jonas's Assignment?
Jonas asks about the previous Receiver-in-training and learns that her name has this designation.
What is not to be spoken?
This ritual was done by each family unit after dinner.
What is the Telling of Feelings?
This is the first item that Jonas saw change inexplicably.
What is an apple?
Children receive these at the Ceremony of One.
What are names and family units?
The Chief Elder apologized to the audience, saying that Jonas had not been Assigned, he had been... (one word).
What is selected?
Jonas realizes he has been separated from this group forever because of his job.
What are the other Elevens (his peers)?
In Chapter 1, Jonas decides he is feeling a particular way and searches for this word to describe it. It is a combination of being nervous and frightened.
What is apprehensive?
This is the reason Jonas doesn't often do his volunteer hours with his friend, Asher.
What is "Asher frequently fooled around and made serious work a little difficult?"
Namings, Matching of Spouses, Placement of Newchildren, and Assignments are all decided by this group of people.
What is the Council of Elders?
This is the most honored job in the community, and there is only one at a time, except for when the current must train their replacement.
What is Receiver of Memory?
This single sentence in Jonas’s instructions changes how he understands truth in his community.
What is "You may lie"?