Characters
Community
Miscellaneous
Assignments
The Giver/Receiver
100
What is the name of the main character?
Jonas
100
Where does Jonas spends his last volunteering day?
At the House of the Old.
100
What rule was almost always broken by the community and wasn't taken seriously?
Teaching the younger siblings to ride a bike.
100
What is Jonas' father job and what does that mean?
He was a Nurturer, he took care of children during their first year of life.
100
What decision was made about Gabriel? What did Jonas do about it?
He was going to be released so Jonas took him and ran away.
200
What is Jonas' sister name?
Lily
200
What was the ritual that Jonas' family did at the end of their evening meal?
Share their feelings.
200
How many years could you serve as a birth mother? What was your job after you served?
Three years and then they became laborers.
200
At what ceremony do kids get assigned a bike?
At the Ceremony of Nines.
200
Who is Rosemary and what happened to her?
She was the receiver 10 years before Jonas but she asked to be released because she couldn't bear the pain of the memories.
300
During the first chapter a person was "released" who was this person and why did he get released?
A pilot, for flying over the city.
300
How are Jonas and Gabriel alike?
Their eyes look the same.
300
What is the first color Jonas is able to see?
Red
300
Who is Fiona and what is her assignment?
She is a friend of Jonas and she works with at the House of the Old.
300
Why did Jonas make himself and Gabe cold as the search planes hunted for them?
Because the planes had heat detectors and they could find them through their body heat.
400
What does Jonas' father do that upsets Jonas very much?
He releases one of the new born twins.
400
When does Jonas hear music for the first time?
When he and Gabriel are going down the hill on the sled.
400
What happen to people if the are "Released"?
They are killed
400
What was Jonas' assignment?
He was assigned to be the Receiver.
400
What was waiting Jonas at the top of the hill?
a sled
500
Who is Asher?
He is Jonas' best friend.
500
What happens at the end of the book?
Jonas and Gabriel go down a snowy hill and on the bottom he sees a house with a family celebrating Christmas.
500
Where did Jonas' father stick the needle into the newborn twin? Where did father place the baby?
On his head. In the garbage shoot.
500
Why was Gabriel not given a family his first year and what was going to happen to him before his second year ended?
He was not assigned to a family because he was not ready, he did not sleep through the night. He was going to be released before the end of his second year because he cried during the night.
500
How did he know this place would take care of Gabe and him?
He feels certain that the families in those houses, where they kept memories and celebrated love, were waiting for him and Gabe.
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