Characters
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Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
This is the main character in the story.
Who is Jonas?
100
Jonas knew the searchers were looking for them because he saw the planes flying overhear.
What is true?
100
This is the month of everyone's birthday.
What is December?
100
This is what stuffed animals are called in the community.
What is Comfort Objects?
100
This word means that everyone wears tunics, no colors are seen, and there is nothing different.
What is sameness?
200
This is the main characters sister
Who is Lily?
200
When twins were born, the community would nurture the smaller one and release the larger one.
What is false?
200
This was the first painful memory transmitted to Jonas
What is a sunburn?
200
This is the word that the community uses for a killing death.
What is release?
200
This is The Giver's favorite memory (holiday).
What is Christmas?
300
This person has trouble sleeping at night.
Who is Gabe?
300
The adults would go live in the House of the Old when their children had grown up.
What is false?
300
This is what the Receiver told Jonas to call him.
What is The Giver?
300
This is the job in the community that takes care of the new children. It is also the job of Jonas' father.
What is nurturer?
300
This is what the pill does for the people of the community.
What is stop the stirrings?
400
This person is the elected leader of the Community.
Who is The Chief Elder?
400
Jonas stopped taking his pills because he liked having feelings.
What is true?
400
This is what "Matching of Spouses" really means.
What is marriage?
400
This is what children in the community starts at age 8.
What are volunteer hours?
400
This is what is given to each member of the community at their ceremony of twelves.
What is assignment?
500
This person lives in the House of the Old and was given a bath by the main character.
Who is Larissa?
500
During a Ceremony of Loss, for a day, the community would chant the person's name who had died.
What is true?
500
This is what Jonas and Gabriel experienced for the first time that made them wet.
What is rain?
500
This is the name of a mother, father, daughter, and son in the community.
What is a family unit?
500
This is how Jonas gives Gabe memories.
What is put his hang on his back?
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