Week of Feb. 26- March 2nd


Questions on chapters 12,13,and 14 are due on February 28th.



Chapter 12

 1. What problem was Gabriel having?
 2. What dream had come to Jonas as he slept?
 3. Why didn’t Jonas join his classmates as they talked about their first day of training?
 4. As Jonas watched Fiona walk away, what happened to her hair?
 5. What was The Giver’s explanation for the strange thing that Jonas saw in the apple, the people’s faces, Fiona’s hair, the sled, and the books?
6. Why was the quality that Jonas saw in the sled unchanging while the quality in the other objects were fleeting?
7. Back in time, what had Jonas and The Giver’s people done to color?
 8. How did Jonas feel about his people’s decision to gain control of many things by letting go of others?
 9. How did The Giver feel about the decisions their people had made long ago?
10. What was the next memory that The Giver gave Jonas?



Chapter 13

 1. What was Jonas’s reason for saying the absence of color was not fair?
 2. Why did Jonas find that he was often angry?
 3. Who were the three people to whom Jonas attempted to transmit a memory?
 4. What disturbing and startling memory did The Giver transmit to Jonas?
 5. If Jonas chose to have a spouse and children, what would he not be able to share with them?
6. What happened when the memories from the failed Receiver were released?
 7. What did The Giver say about facts and memories?
 8. Why was Jonas sent away some afternoons without training?
 9. What did Jonas wonder as he stood at the foot of the bridge that spanned the river and led to outlying communities?
10. Why did Jonas ask The Giver to transmit pain to him?

Chapter 14

 1. What painful memory did The Giver add to the second sled ride?
 2. How did The Giver explain the necessity of painful memories?
 3. Explain how The Giver used the memory of overpopulation, starvation, and warfare to advise the Committee of Elders.
 4. Why was The Receiver vital to the community?
 5. Though both he and The Receiver wanted it, why did it seem to Jonas that nothing could be changed?
  6. Why did Father think the newchild Gabriel might be released?
 7. What responsibility would Father face when the male twins were born?
 8. What partial memory did Jonas accidentally transmit to Gabriel?
 9. When Jonas purposely gave him the rest of the memory, how did Gabriel react?
10. Why did Jonas decide not to tell The Giver that he had given a memory away?