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The Giver

Lois Lowry

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1. In the first chapter, why is the Pilot released from the community?

(A) He was a spy from an enemy community

(B) He failed to deliver his cargo of food on time

(D) He crashed his aircraft

2. Why does Jonas decide that “apprehensive” is a better word for his feeling than “frightened”?

(A) He wants to use more sophisticated vocabulary, since he is turning twelve soon

(B) He thinks it expresses more precisely how he feels

(D) His mother once used the word “apprehensive” and he admires her

3. What does Jonas's mother do for a living?

(A) She is a Nurturer

(B) She is a Storyteller

(D) She works for the department of justice

4. Which rule is most frequently broken in Jonas's community?

(A) Children must not ride bicycles until they are nine

(B) Adults and children are not allowed to look at each other naked

(D) The names of newchildren are secret until the Naming Ceremony

5. Why does Jonas's mother discourage Lily from becoming a Birthmother?

(A) Giving birth is dangerous, and Lily might die from the complications

(B) Birthmothers are very lazy and never get anything done

(D) The society is overpopulated

6. Why does Jonas worry about Asher's Assignment?

(A) Asher is easily disappointed and will probably find fault with his assignment

(B) Asher does not seem to have any serious interests

(D) Asher has not completed enough volunteer hours to qualify for an Assignment

7. Why is Gabriel in danger of being released?

(A) He bites the staff at the Nurturing Center

(B) He is deformed

(D) He smiles too much, and the staff suspects he will be abnormally gassy when he grows up

8. What do the numbers assigned to each child signify?

(A) The order of their birth

(B) Their rank in school

(D) Their height in inches

9. Why does the Chief Elder apologize to the audience at the Ceremony of Twelve?

(A) She is about to tell them that Jonas will be released

(B) She has caused them anxiety about Jonas's Assignment

(D) She knows they are disappointed with their children's Assignments

10. How does the community react to the death of a child in the river?

(A) They hold a candlelight vigil

(B) They send casseroles to the child's parents

(D) They chant the child's name over and over, each time more and more softly

11. Where did the Giver get his wisdom?

(A) From his own experience

(B) From reading books

(D) From a surgical operation

12. Which of the following was not written on Jonas's Assignment sheet?

(A) You are permitted to lie

(B) You are not permitted to apply for release

(D) You are exempted from rules governing rudeness

13. What method does the Giver use to train Jonas?

(A) He places his hands on Jonas's bare back and gives him memories

(B) He burns Jonas with a hot iron repeatedly until Jonas can endure pain

(D) He shows Jonas videos of events that happened in the distant past

14. What are Stirrings?

(A) Leftover pancake batter

(B) Intense religious gatherings at which members of the community vent their suppressed emotions

(D) The beginnings of sexual desire

15. What is the first memory Jonas receives?

(A) A ride on a sled through falling snow

(B) A sunburn

(D) A ride on a sled resulting in a broken leg

16. Why is Lily skeptical of Jonas's story about the elephants?

(A) She is afraid of elephants, so she thinks Jonas is just trying to scare her

(B) Jonas is a pathological liar

(D) Lily is an expert on elephants and knows they would never behave in the way Jonas describes them

17. What was the name of the failed Receiver who was chosen ten years ago?

(A) Poppy

(B) Melanie

(D) Rosemary

18. Why is Jonas not permitted to apply for release?

(A) If Jonas left the community, all the valuable time and money spent on his training would be wasted

(B) If Jonas left the community, all of the Committee of Elders would die of broken hearts because they love him so much

(C) If Jonas left the community, all the memories he had accumulated would enter the minds of the citizens and create chaos

(D) If Jonas left, the Giver would be lonely

19. How does Jonas help the newchild Gabriel go to sleep?

(A) He transmits memories of lullabies and soft beds

(B) He tells him bedtime stories

(D) He injects him with a mild sleeping drug

20. Why do Jonas's parents refuse to tell him that they love him?

(A) They think that Jonas will feel smothered by their love

(B) They secretly hate him

(D) They were not paying attention when he asked if they loved him

21. Why does Jonas interrupt his friends' game of good guys and bad guys?

(A) They did not let him play

(B) They are not following the rules governing gameplay

(D) He recognizes that their game takes a casual attitude toward tragedy

22. Why does the Nurturing Center release one of every set of identical twins?

(A) The staff is sadistic

(B) It is inconvenient to have identical people walking around

(D) One twin is always seriously ill at birth

23. Why does Jonas leave the community before the time he and the Giver had planned?

(A) He realizes that the Giver is conspiring with the Committee of Elders to trap him

(B) He finds out that Gabriel will be released the next morning and wants to save his life

(D) He wants to bring Fiona, and he knows the Giver would not approve

24. How does Jonas keep the search planes from finding him and Gabriel?

(A) He covers their bodies with thick, dirty leaves

(B) He bribes one of the Pilots to ignore them

(D) He stays very still because they are motion-sensitive

25. What does Jonas see (or think he sees) as he nears the bottom of the hill on the sled?

(A) Colored lights in the windows of houses

(B) His parents waiting for him

(D) A child with a broken leg who has fallen from his sled

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