Chapters 12-14
The Giver explains to Jonas that everything has the qualities of shape and size, but long ago they also had this quality.
What is color?
What is water?
Who was the previous Receiver of Memories?
Who was Rosemary?
Name a land animal Jonas sees (and knows by name) during his escape.
What is a deer?
This word describes something that was made using whatever materials were available.
The Giver gives Jonas a memory that makes him aware that Lily's comfort animal was once a real being. What animal is it?
What is an elephant?
The favorite memory that The Giver shares with Jonas seems to be an image of this.
What is Christmas?
The decision to release one of the newchild twins was based on this measurement.
What is weight?
Why does Jonas cry at the end of Chapter 22?
What is "he is afraid he cannot save Gabriel"?
This word means the same as comfort.
What is solace?
The first memory of extreme pain that The Giver gives to Jonas.
What is a broken leg?
After children have grown but before they go to the House of the Old, members of the community go here.
What is "they'll go and live with the other Childless Adults"?
Before Jonas became the Receiver of Memories, the rules were changed so that the Receiver could not ask for release. How many years before Jonas became Receiver was this change made?
What is 10?
What happens in the resolution of The Giver?
What is "Jonas thinks he hears music from the place he had left but wonders if it is just an echo (of the music coming from the house)"?
What does vigilant mean in the following sentence:
We are vigilant about walking the dog for at least 30 minutes a day.
What is "being attentive to the issue or making sure it happens every day"?
The first memory that Jonas accidentally transmits to Gabriel.
What is a sailboat on a lake?
The word that Jonas' mother tells him is "so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete."
What is love?
The Giver says he can't go with Jonas. He has to stay behind for this reason.
What is...the people will need someone to help them through the shock of the memories that losing Jonas will release?
The Giver tells Jonas there is something he is empowered to do but has never done. What is it?
What is "lie to Jonas"?
Where in The Giver might you find people you would describe as feeble?
Where is The House of the Old?
The memory that came to The Giver when the Elders asked him if the community could increase the rate of births.
What is hunger?
The game that the children play on the unscheduled day off disturbs Jonas because they are playing this.
What is war?
The Giver tells Jonas that his ability wasn't to be able to see beyond, it was this.
What is the ability to hear beyond?
In Chapter 23, Jonas talks about a place that "holds their future and their past." What is that place called?
What is Elsewhere?
What is subtle?
A word that means something that is difficult to detect or hard to understand.