Vocab
What is the meaning of wince?
What is to flinch as if in pain?
What is the rule most commonly broken in Jonas's community but is not seen as a serious offence?
What is teaching younger siblings to ride bicycles?
What word do Jonas's parents describe as meaningless?
What is love?
What is the one word term that is the biggest lie the community members are told?
What is release?
What type of family member does Jonas learn about in the Christmas memory that is filled with love?
What is grandparents?
What is rule #8 in Jonas's packet (the one that frightens him most of all)?
What is he may lie?
For the Giver, what did the "Capacity to See Beyond" mean? In other words, how did he experience it?
What is music?
What is the idea that people are so unimportant that they are easily replaceable?
What is the color of the sled in Jonas's first memory?
What is red?
How many books has every citizen in the Community been allowed to read? What are they?
What is the 3: a book of rules, a dictionary, and a thick community volume describing offices, building, committees, etc. (Map of community is acceptable)?
What do the feelings that most community members have lack?
What is depth?
What altered the Giver and Jonas's plan to escape?
What is the planned release of Gabe?
What is the first animal Jonas receives a memory of?
What is an elephant?
Jonas tries to (and succeeds in one case) break a very important rule. What is is or what does he do?
What is the rule against sharing his training with others (or basically that he tries to transmit memories with Asher, Lily, and his father and does it repeatedly [successfully] with Gabe)?
Daily Double: To what memory did Jonas return at the end of the book and what was special about it?
What is the memory of Christmas, the Giver's favorite memory?
Who was the person to whom Asher refers as having "been there one minute and just gone the next" when he was talking about assignments before the Ceremony of Twelve?
Who was Rosemary? OR Who was the Giver's daughter?
What memory does Jonas share with Gabriel to hide them from the planes? Why does he choose THIS memory?
What is memories of cold and snow (the planes had heat-seeking technology)?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! What three rules does Jonas break when he leaves the community?
What is leaving his dwelling at night, stealing food, and stealing his dad's bike?
Daily Double: What memories does the Giver have? What memories doesn't he "hold"? What was the "starting point" for the memories he doesn't have to hold?
He holds all the past memories of experiences that no one in the community CAN experience. He doesn't need to hold memories that people experience since Sameness.
What are two important symbols in the book?
What are light eyes, color (red), the sled, and the River?
Daily Double: How many memories did Rosemary have vs Jonas (in months or weeks, please)? What were the "turning point" memories for both Jonas and Rosemary? Be specific!
What is 5 weeks (Rosemary) vs 11 months (Jonas)? What is the memory of a child taken from its parents ( or loss and loneliness -Rosemary), and what is the memory of war (Jonas)?