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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. What step must Tens make to continue on to adulthood?

2. When a person is released, they are led through which room?

3. How many members are in Jonas's family?

4. What assignment does Jonas receive from The Chief Elder?

5. What will Jonas have to do because he is late for class in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jonas's family.

2. Who observes the children in order to place them into appropriate jobs?

3. What happened to the old Receiver?

4. What is significant about volunteering? Does it matter to the children's future?

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

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

7. Describe the first memory that The Giver gives to Jonas.

8. Why is Gabriel not part of the 'Ones'?

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

10. What catches Jonas's eye when he first enters the Receiver's office and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Elders control and regulate the activities of the community in The Giver. In America, the older generations is similarly in charge of the younger. Write a description of reversal where the young are in more positions of power and authority. What would America look like? What societal characteristics might improve, and what might suffer?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Jonas takes on the memory of The Giver to ease his pain. Does the ability to blunt pain make for a more peaceful, easier life? Or, does muting the feelings associated with living a normal life sacrifice the freedom of choice? Cite examples from the text in your answer.

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