6th Grade: TOR
Grammar
Random Trivia
Great Literary Minds
7th Grade: Giver
100
This character is small and eleven years old.
Who is Joaquín?
100
This is the acronym for the coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
100
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
The picture above is from The Cat in the Hat, a beloved children's book by this author.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
100
This is the word for what Jonas feels at the beginning of the novel.
What is apprehensive?
200
This character finds the injured dog in the bushes.
Who is Xavi?
200
This is the term for a full and complete thought that has a subject, a verb, and can stand on its own.
What is an independent clause?
200
This is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in any U.S. State name.
What is the letter Q?
200
The portrait above is of this brilliant writer.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
This character has been granted an extra year of nurturing and is therefore not at the Ceremony of One.
Who is Gabriel?
300
On the bus, this is how much Jaime earns for his portrait of the old woman.
What is twelve pesos?
300
This is the term for a group of words that is missing a subject, missing a verb, and/or does not express a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause or phrase?
300
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
Among this writer's famous works are "Fish Cheeks" and The Joy Luck Club.
Who is Amy Tan?
300
This is something Jonas notices in the current Receiver's dwelling that surprises him most; he's never seen this many, or this variety, before.
What are books?
400
The name of the church where Jaime and Ángela stayed in Arriaga.
What is La Iglesia de Santo Domingo?
400
When a person owns something, we usually add this possessive punctuation mark and an s.
What is an apostrophe?
400
This movie is the highest-grossing film of all time, known for groundbreaking special effects and 3D technology.
What is Avatar?
400
The portrait shown here is of this Victorian-Gothic writer.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
This is what the current Receiver must do with Jonas over the course of his training.
What is transmit memories of the past?
500
This is the English for "café con leche," which a teen asks for in the church as a joke.
Coffee with milk.
500
This is the correct formatting for titles of novels, plays, and other long works.
What is italicizing?
500
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is Antarctica?
500
This writer won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature for Beloved (1988), the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Who is Toni Morrison?
500
11-19.
What is Jonas's number as it stands at the start of the Ceremony of Twelve?