Week of Feb. 12-16

Questions are due on Wednesday, Feb. 14th.


Chapter 6

 1. Why did Fours, Fives, and Sixes wear jackets that fastened down the back?
 2. What transportation did Jonas’s family use to get to the Auditorium?
 3. What decision had the committee made about Gabriel?
 4. Explain how the placement of the newchild named Caleb was unusual.
 5. Explain how the transgressions of the Nine called Fritz affected his parents and the community.
 6. What was the story that worried Asher?
 7. What option did a member of the community have if he or she didn’t fit in?
 8. How were couples brought together in the community?
 9. What characteristics made Jonas’s parents a good match?
10. Why was Jonas certain that his Assignment, and Asher’s, would be the right one for them?

Chapter 7

 1. At birth, Jonas had been given the number Nineteen. What did this mean?
 2. What position did the Chief Elder hold in the community?
 3. What happened to Asher when he was a Three because he had difficulty with precision of language?
 4. What was Asher’s Assignment?
 5. Why did Jonas bow his head in shame and wonder what he had done wrong?

 Chapter 8

 1. How many people in the community had the job of Receiver?
 2. What had happened ten years earlier when the committee had selected an Eleven as the new Receiver of Memory?
 3. Explain why the Committee of Elders were certain that Jonas was qualified to be the next Receiver of Memory.
 4. Why was courage a requirement for a Receiver-in-training?
 5. What experience led Jonas to believe he had the Capacity to See Beyond as the current Receiver had said?