1. When Jonas asks for the Giver’s favorite memory, what memory does he receive?
2. How do Jonas’s parents respond when he asks them if they love him?
3. After he learns about the existence of love, what does Jonas decide to stop doing?
4. When the community receives an unscheduled holiday, why does Jonas refuse to play a game with his friends?
5. How does Jonas’ society determine which of two twin newchildren will be released?
6. What did the Giver transmit to Rosemary, while holding back physical pain?
7. The Giver says, “when she was gone, the memories came back to the people. If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are ___________.”
8. How does Jonas get to understand what “release” means?
9. The Giver explains how Rosemary was “released”: “You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn’t brave enough? I don’t know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to _____________________.”
10. Rather than experiencing flashes of color, what form did the Giver’s “seeing-beyond” take?
11. What memories does the Giver intend to transmit to Jonas to aid him in his escape from the community?
12. According to the Giver’s original plan, how was Jonas going to get out of the community?
13. The Giver says, “My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole. I’m grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to __________. And my role is to _________.”
14. Rosemary was the Giver’s ___________.
15. What does Jonas do instead of the original plan, and why?
16. How does Jonas hide Gabe and himself from the heat-seeking planes chasing after them?
17. After their food runs out, what does Jonas manage to trap and kill so that he and Gabriel don’t starve?
18. Jonas’s journey becomes difficult with pain, hunger and cold. He reflects on the choice he made: “Once he had yearned for choice. Then when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving. [But] If he had stayed, he would have __________ in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.”
19. “Using his final strength, and a special knowledge that was deep inside him,” what does Jonas find at the top of the hill?
20. As Jonas concludes his journey at the end of the story, what does he experience for the first time?
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