CHAPTER 1
1. Describe Jonas’ community.
2. Describe Jonas’ family. What do his parents do?
3. Who is Asher?
4. What is the word that Jonas feels? Why?
5. What is “release”?
6. What do they discuss in their ritual of feeling sharing?
7. What is this “Ceremony of 12”?
CHAPTER 2
1. What happens every December?
2. What happens when children become Ones? Nines?
3. Who is the Receiver and how are rules changed? (p. 14)
4. Who is Gabriel and why is Jonas’ father worried about him (ch. 1)?
5. Why is the Ceremony of 12 so important?
6. What things do Jonas’ parents share with him about their memories of their assignments and of their friends’ assignments?
CHAPTER 3
1. What did Jonas notice about the apple?
2. How do all evenings end in the community?
3. What else do you learn about the community from this chapter?
4. What about birthmothers?
CHAPTER 4
1. What happens to Eights?
2. Where does Jonas spend his volunteer hours? What does he do? What do you learn?
3. What happens at release?
CHAPTER 5
1. What was Jonas’ dream?
2. What are stirrings?
3. What does Jonas have to do now that he has had stirrings?
4. Why do you think he has to do that?
CHAPTER 6
1. What happened to Sevens?
2. Why wasn’t Gabriel at the Naming?
3. What was the Ceremony of Loss?
4. What else do you learn about release?
5. What happened for Tens and Elevens?
6. How do people get spouses and children?
CHAPTER 7
1. What is Jonas’ number? How are they assigned numbers?
2. What is Asher’s assignment?
3. “Thank you for your childhood.” Explain.
4. Why do you think Jonas was skipped?
CHAPTER 8
1. What is the difference between “assigned” and “selected”?
2. What is Jonas selected to do?
3. What attributes does Jonas have that will help him in his assignment?
4. What is this “capacity to see beyond”?
CHAPTER 9
1. Jonas receives his rules. State each rule and tell what he thinks of each rule?
*Rule #1
*Rule #2
*Rule #3
*Rule #4
*Rule #5
*Rule #6
*Rule #7
*Rule #8
*Rule #9
CHAPTER 10
1. How is Jonas treated by the secretary?
2. What is different at the Receiver’s home? (whole chapter)
3. What is the Giver’s job? What must he give Jonas?
4. Page 78, what does this mean: “I am so weighted with them.”?
CHAPTER 11
1. What is Jonas’ first memory?
2. What is Jonas’ reaction to the first memory?
3. What happened to snow?
4. What is Jonas’ second memory?
5. What is Jonas’ third memory?
6. What is Jonas’ title?
CHAPTER 12
1. What is Jonas beginning to see?
2. How does the Giver help him?
3. What happens to color in this community (vs. in memory)?
4. What is Jonas’ opinion of sameness?
CHAPTER 13
1. What causes frustration for Jonas?
2. What is Jonas’ first startling and disturbing memory? What is his reaction?
3. Is the Giver married? Explain about his marriage relationship.
4. Why is a Receiver necessary in the community?
5. What does Jonas wonder about when he’s not with the Giver?
6. Why does the Giver sometimes send him away?
CHAPTER 14
1. What is the first painful memory and what is its effect on Jonas?
2. What do he and the Giver have to hold painful memories?
3. Why can’t everyone have memories, to share?
4. What’s wrong with Gabriel?
5. What happens when twins are born?
6. How does Jonas comfort Gabriel? What does he think of this?
CHAPTER 15
1. What is this memory and what is its result on Jonas?
CHAPTER 16
1. What are some good memories?
2. What is the Giver’s favorite memory? Explain.
3. How does Jonas feel about this memory? What are some advantages and disadvantages of this?
4. What happens when Jonas discusses this feeling with his parents?
5. What is Jonas’ relationship to Gabriel now?
6. How does Jonas break the rules at the end of this chapter? What implications will this have?
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23