The Giver - Test Yourself Menu
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Chapters 1 - 5
1. In the opening chapter Jonas uses several words to describe his feeling about the Ceremony of Twelve. Which does he use first?
2. What is the word he finally settles on, and why?
3. What does it tell us about the community that Lily is described as “a Seven”?
4. What clues are there in the text that the community the story is set in is unlike our own?
5. How are birthdays celebrated in the community?
6. What is a “newchild”?
7. How are families created in the community?
8. Why do the family laugh at the idea of the appeals process?
9. What advice does Jonas’s mother give him that might not seem out of place to a twelve-year-old in our own community?
10. What is a comfort object?
11. Why might the role of “birthmother” be so lacking in honour? How does this compare to our own society?
12. Why would bragging be against the rules? What restrictions does that also place on conversation?
13. Why does Jonas consider the nakedness of old people to make them “free”? What are they free from?
Please note we limit the knowledge questions to the opening chapters to avoid spoiling the story for the students.
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Are you familiar with any other context of a name “Not-to-be-Spoken”? Are the reasons for this the same? Explain your thoughts on why anyone in this community would become 'unspoken.'
Follow the technique used in the description of snow to create a short paragraph to describe a sensation or experience without revealing the name of it until the end.
How does Lowry maintain some suspense throughout the book about the concept of “seeing beyond”? (Remember to find examples in the text)
What is the Giver’s opinion of the change to ‘Sameness’? Explain using evidence from the text.
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