Plot & Events
Characters
The Community
Symbols & Themes
Memorable Moments
100

The job is Jonas assigned at the Ceremony of Twelve

What is the Receiver of Memory?

100

The protagonist of The Giver

Who is Jonas?

100

Why the Ceremony of Twelve so important in the society

What is because it marks the moment children are assigned their roles in the community?

100

The significance of the color red in the novel

What is a symbol for freedom?

100

The first real emotional experience Jonas has

What is when Jonas feels the pain of sunburn?

200

Jonas' first memory that the Giver gives him

What is sledding down a snowy hill?

200

Jonas' best friend

Who is Asher?

200

What the community does to suppress feelings of love

What is the use of daily medication?

200

What the sled symbolize in the novel

What is the emotional journey Jonas is going through?

200

How Jonas feels about his first memory of sledding

What is he feels free, experiencing a sense of joy for the first time?

300

The thing that happens to a person who is released from the community

What is they are killed by lethal injection?

300

The person who transmits memories to Jonas

Who is the Giver?

300

The most important rule in Jonas’ society regarding family units

What is that families are assigned children by the government?

300

How memory play a role in the novel

What is representing wisdom and individual choice

300

What shocking moment does Jonas witness that makes him question the community’s practices

What is when Jonas sees his father “release” the twin, revealing it is actually a form of euthanasia?

400

How Jonas first learns about the concept of “release”

What is when Jonas sees his father “release” the twin baby?

400

The baby Jonas saves from release

Who is Gabe?

400

How the community is governed in the book

What is by a group of Elders who make decisions for everyone?

400

How the theme of "sameness" affect the community in the book

What is it eliminates individuality and emotions?

400

How the novel ends

What is with Jonas fleeing the community, hoping to find a place where emotions and freedom are allowed?

500

Why Jonas decides to run away from the community

What is to stop the society’s control over emotions and to free himself?

500

The character that released at the beginning of the story

Who is the old man in the house of the old who gets "released"?

500

How the concept of "release" functions in the community

What is a way to remove people from society?

500

How the use of medication impact the citizens in the community

What is it numbs emotions and prevents personal growth?

500

What Jonas hears at the end of the novel that gives a sense of hope and a signal to a new beginning 

What is music and laughter?

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