People and Familes
This is the name of the story’s main character.
Who is Jonas?
Each night after the evening meal, families share this ritual.
What is the telling of feelings?
At age nine, children receive this symbol of independence.
What is a bicycle?
Jonas’s comfort object was this.
What is a bear?
This replacement child was given after the first Caleb died.
Who is the second Caleb?
This is the name of Jonas’s best friend.
Who is Asher?
Each morning, Jonas’s family began with this ritual.
What is the telling of dreams?
This ceremony provides families with their babies.
What is the Ceremony of the Ones?
This newchild’s comfort object was a hippo.
Who is Gabriel?
No one knows where people truly go after this.
What is being released (to Elsewhere)?
This is Jonas’s sister.
Who is Lily?
Each family is only allowed this many children.
What is two—one boy and one girl?
At age twelve, children receive this during the Ceremony of Twelve.
What is a Life Assignment?
Lily’s jacket with pockets at age eight symbolized this.
What is the responsibility to keep track of her own things?
When Jonas and Asher tossed the apple, Jonas noticed this strange change.
What is that it briefly changed appearance?
This newchild was pale-eyed, fussy, and stayed with Jonas’s family for extra care.
Who is Gabriel (or Gabe)?
The treatment for “stirrings” is to take these.
What are pills?
This is the most important job in the community.
Who is the Receiver (or the Committee of Elders)?
Lily’s comfort object was this.
What is a stuffed elephant?
This was Jonas’s fear as the story began.
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
This is Jonas’s father’s job.
What is a Nurturer?
Fours, fives, and sixes wear jackets buttoned down the back to teach this.
What is interdependence?
This is how spouses are matched in the community.
What is by careful monitoring and assignment from the Committee of Elders?
This item Jonas took from the Recreation Area briefly changed appearance.
What is an apple?
This is what happened to the pilot-in-training who made an error at the beginning of the book.
What is he was released?