ANSWER KEY for Short Answer Questions: Ch 11-13

ANSWER KEY FOR Short Answer Questions: ch 11-13:

1. Why is there no snow in the Community?

SNOW MADE FOOD DIFFICULT TO GROW & LIMITED THE AGRICULTURAL PERIODS. UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER MADE TRANSPORTATION IMPOSSIBLE AT TIMES.

2. Why are there no hills in the Community?

HILLS WOULD MAKE TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULT & SLOW

3. What is the first memory transmitted that involves physical pain? SUNBURN

4. Since Jonas is the new Receiver, the old man is now the: GIVER

5. As Jonas works with the Giver, he realizes the apple and Fiona’s hair appeared to change

BECAUSE HE SEESCOLOR because OF HIS CAPACITY TO SEE FROM BEYOND

6. What does Jonas protest as unfair in the Community?

NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE COLOR & HAVING ABILITY TO MAKE CHOICES

7. After thinking it through, what does Jonas say about the reasoning behind Sameness/taking away choice?

(P.98) SMALL CHOICES WOULDN’T MATTER, BUT LATER ON IN LIFE IT WOULD MATTER. PEOPLE COULD MAKE THE WRONG CHOICES.

8. Jonas receives a powerful and disturbing memory about elephant poachers. As he sees Lily with her comfort object later that night, what does he realize?

ANIMALS USED TO EXIST; COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE DISCONNECTED & CLUELESS

9. What does the Giver reveal about the last Receiver, and what happened to the memories she had received? THE MEMORIES WERE RELEASED TO THE COMMUNITY

ANSWER KEY FOR 14-16: Fill-in-the-blank, Short Answer Questions

1. After the broken leg memory, what does Jonas realize while going to bed that night?

THEY NEVER FELT PAIN

2. Years ago, why did the citizens push for an increase the required number of births for Birthmothers? THEY WANTED MORE LABORERS FOR THE COMMUNITY

3. What advice did the Giver offer to the Committee of Elders about this (see #2 above)?

ADVISED AGAINST IT (DUE TO STARVATION)

4. Father explains that the birth of twins is not allowed. How does he decide which gets released? THE SMALLER ONE

5. Jonas thinks about how the released people go to ELSEWHERE

6. What does Jonas do when Gabriel awoke at night? TRANSFERS A MEMORY OF SAILING ON A LAKE

7. In the morning, what does Jonas decide? NOT TO TELL THE GIVER THAT HE GAVE AWAY THE MEMORY

8. Jonas visits the Giver and finds him in much pain. The Giver then shares what memory, in an attempt to get rid of some of the pain—WARFARE, MEN DYING, THIRST

9. What favorite memory does the Giver share with Jonas? CHRISTMAS

10. In this memory (see #9 above), what does Jonas realize about family units long ago? GRANDPARENTS

11. After the Giver shares his favorite memory, what does Jonas ask his parents at home?

DO YOU LOVE ME?

12. How do they answer him? “IT’S INAPPROPRIATE TO USE A WORD LIKE LOVE.”

13. What does Jonas decide to stop doing? TAKING HIS PILLS