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Week of Feb. 19-23


Students this is the last week of the 4th six weeks, make sure you study and prepare yourself for the six weeks exam. 


* Questions are due on Feb. 21st. Make sure that you have question and answer.


Chapter 9

1. How did Jonas feel after receiving his assignment?
 2. What did Jonas’s parents tell him about the selection that failed?
 3. Where was Jonas to go for his instruction?
 4. What did Jonas conclude about his exemption from rudeness?
 5. How did Jonas feel about being prohibited from dream telling? 
6. What restriction unnerved him?
 7. What were Jonas’s thoughts about the rule that said he was not permitted to apply for release?
 8. What was the unintentional lie that Jonas had told when he had been a Four?
 9. What frightening, new thought did Jonas have?
10. What problem would Jonas encounter if he asked someone, such as his father, if he lied?


Chapter 10

 1. What did the Attendant do when Jonas entered the Annex lobby?
 2. Why was Jonas surprised that the Receiver’s door was locked? \
3. Compared to Jonas’s home, what was the most conspicuous difference in the Receiver’s living area?
 4. What was the Receiver’s explanation for appearing older that he really was?
 5. Why did the Receiver encourage Jonas to ask questions?
 6. What was the Receiver’s task in training Jonas? \
7. Until he met the Receiver, what had been Jonas’s understanding of “the whole world” and “generations before”?
 8. How had the man received all the memories he held?
 9. Why didn’t Jonas understand when the Receiver talked about riding a sled through snow?
10. Where was Jonas when the Receiver began transmitting the memory of snow to him?


Chapter 11

 1. What was the first memory the man gave to Jonas?
 2. Explain how transmitting the memory to Jonas helped the old man.
 3. Why was Jonas not familiar with sleds, snow, and hills?
 4. How did Jonas feel about the absence of the things in the memory that he had experienced?
 5. Why didn’t the old man tell Jonas beforehand that he was going to transmit the memory of sunshine?
 6. What did Jonas understand about sunshine?
 7. What bothersome question did Jonas ask?
 8. What experience had given the old man the wisdom to start Jonas’s training with pleasurable memories?
 9. What painful memory did the old man transmit to Jonas?
 10. What did the old man tell Jonas to call him?