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The Giver Quiz

Read the original study guide below, then answer each question using details from it. This guide summarizes events and ideas from the opening chapters of The Giver; it is not an excerpt from the novel.

Study Guide: Jonas and the Community

Jonas lives in a carefully organized community where people follow detailed rules. At home, he lives with his parents and his younger sister, Lily. His father works as a Nurturer, caring for infants. One baby in his care, Gabriel, has trouble sleeping through the night, so Jonas’s family temporarily welcomes him into their home. People in the community are expected to use precise language and to share their feelings. Families are assigned rather than chosen, and children receive job assignments at the Ceremony of Twelve. Jonas is approaching that ceremony. He feels both nervous and curious about what role he will be given. During the ceremony, Jonas is not given an ordinary assignment. The Chief Elder names him as the next Receiver of Memory. The community’s current Receiver, an older man Jonas later calls the Giver, will train him. The Receiver holds memories of experiences the rest of the community no longer has. The Chief Elder says Jonas was selected for qualities including intelligence, integrity, courage, and the unusual ability to “see beyond.” Before his selection, Jonas has glimpsed something strange about an apple: for an instant, it seems to change. He does not yet understand what he saw. As he begins training, he will discover that the community’s orderly way of life comes with limits on choice and experience.

Check the Details

Choose the best answer for each question.

1.Which description best fits Jonas’s community in the study guide?

People make every important choice for themselves.
People follow detailed rules and assigned roles.
People live without leaders or shared expectations.
People compete to decide who will care for children.

2.What is Jonas’s father’s job?

He is a Nurturer who cares for infants.
He is the Chief Elder who leads ceremonies.
He is the community’s current Receiver.
He is a teacher who assigns children their jobs.

3.What happens at the Ceremony of Twelve?

Children are assigned their future roles.
Families choose which children to adopt.
The Receiver gives every child a memory.
Children decide which rules to remove.

4.Who will train Jonas to become the next Receiver of Memory?

5.Name two qualities the Chief Elder says Jonas has that helped make him suitable for the role.

6.True or false: Jonas understands immediately what he sees when the apple seems to change.

TrueFalse

Read Between the Lines

Use evidence from the study guide to explain your thinking.

7.Why might Jonas feel both nervous and curious before the Ceremony of Twelve? Give one reason for each feeling, based on the study guide.

8.What does the fact that families are assigned rather than chosen suggest about personal choice in Jonas’s community?

9.The Receiver holds memories that other people no longer have. What might this arrangement help the community do, and what might it cost the community? Give one reasonable idea for each part.

10.Explain how the apple’s brief change foreshadows Jonas’s special role. Use at least one detail from the study guide.