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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are children raised until they are named?

2. What assignment does Madeline receive, which Jonas is glad he did not?

3. Birthmothers have how many births in three years?

4. Where does Jonas volunteer in Chapter 4?

5. How long does Jonas have to take the pill?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jonas's Mother give to Jonas to help with the 'Stirrings'? What happens as a result?

2. What assignment does Fiona receive and why?

3. What ritual is Jonas's family participating in as the novel opens?

4. The Giver gives Jonas a painful memory after the first memory of snow. What is the painful memory?

5. What memories will The Giver give to Jonas?

6. In Chapter 3, what object does Jonas take home and examine and why?

7. What do families in the community share in the new morning?

8. What event from a year ago does Jonas remember that brings back feelings of fear?

9. What is Jonas anticipating as the novel opens and why?

10. What rule is often broken at the ceremony of Nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jonas has been given the job of Receiver, which sets him apart from his community. He is now unique. He can lie if he wants and he is exempted from rudeness. Write about the freedom of being unique and how it must feel to be exempted from the rules of society. What are the benefits? At the same time, write about how that separation might alienate a person from society.

Essay Topic 2

The Giver gives Jonas the experience of snow and sunshine. Discuss the reasons why snow is not permitted in the community. Discus why sunshine is associated with the painful things the Elder mentions. Compare and contrast the emotional and physical effects of snow and sunshine.

Essay Topic 3

Jonas's training becomes painful. As a result, Jonas realizes that the community does not truly experience emotions. In what ways does the absence of pain protect a community? Discuss anger, love, happiness, and pain as necessary opposites that create balance and perspective in the human condition.

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