Short Answer Study Questions for the Giver by Lois Lowry

Short Answer Study Questions for The Giver by Lois Lowry

Directions: Answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper. Answers will only be accepted if they are written in complete sentences.

Chapters 1-5 1. What did the word “frightened” mean according to Jonas? 2. What is Jonas apprehensive about In Chapter One? Why? 3. What were Jonas and the other children taught to be careful about? 4. How did Jonas decide how he felt? What was causing this feeling? 5. What do Jonas and his parents talk about in Chapter Two? 6. What were the two occasions when release was not punishment? 7. What did Father want to do about the newchild, and why? 8. What fascinated Jonas about his father? 9. Why was the Ceremony of Twelve so important? 10. What was unusual about Jonas and the newchild? 11. Describe the Assignment of Birthmother. What did Lily’s parents say about it? 12. What happened to the apple while Jonas was playing with it? 13. Describe the Celebration of Release of Roberto. 14. What was Jonas’s dream about? What did his mother and father say about it? 15. So far, what do you see as the positive aspects of the community Jonas lives in? The negative aspects?

Chapters 6-10 16. What happened when Jonas’s number should have been called? What did Jonas think? 17. Describe the jacket that the Fours, Fives, and Sixes wore, and the reason it was designed the way it was. Describe the jacket the Sevens wore and its significance. 18. What Assignment did Asher get? 19. What was Jonas’s assignment? Why is it important and unusual? 20. What are the four qualities that the Chief Elder and the Receiver of Memory must have? 21. What happened when Jonas was looking out into the crowd? 22. Which of Jonas’s rules disturbs him? Which do not disturb him? Why? 23. How is the receiver’s house different than the other houses in the community? 24. What happened the last time a new receiver was named?

Chapters 11-15 25. Describe the Giver’s favorite memory that he gave to Jonas in Chapter 16. How did Jonas feel about it? 26. What question did Jonas ask his parents after his session with the Giver? What was their answer? What was his reaction? 27. How does Jonas’s relationship with his parents and friends change? 28. What happened to the Community after the incident with the Receiver-to-be? 29. Jonas and the Giver discussed the effects to the Community if Jonas would be lost. What did they think would happen? 30. Describe the release of the newchild.