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The Giver- Handout- #4

Chapters 10, 11, 12

I. Vocabulary- Match each word from column 1 with the definition in column 2.

Column 1 Column 2

1. ______admonished c. amusing and ironic

2. ______alcove n. obvious

3. ______basking d. to rebuke or admonish somebody

4. ______capacity f. to enliven, invogorate

5. ______conspicuous k. secluded area

6. ______deftly j. cold

7. ______diminish g. reduce

8. ______exhilarating h. quick and skillfull

9. ______fretful m. get pleasure from something

10. ______frigid l. to send or convey from one person to another

11. ______genetic a. ability

12. ______torrent i. worried

13. ______transmitting- e. hereditary

14. ______wryly b. violent flow, outpour

II. Vocabulary- part 2

Select 7 words from the list above and write a meaningful sentence for each.

III. Questions- Answer the following on a clean sheet of loose leaf paper. Give examples from the story to support your answers.

1.  What was the “most conspicuous difference” between Jonas’ family unit’s dwelling and the Receiver’s dwelling? Why?

2.  Why might a community such as this not want its citizens to have books?

3.  Jonas misinterpreted the Receiver’s statement: “My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.” Explain what this means.

4.  Why didn’t Jonas know what snow was?

5.  What was it about the Receiver’s speaker that astonished Jonas?

6.  Why did snow become obsolete when the community went to Sameness?

7.  What memory of pain did Jonas receive?

8.  Evaluate the name The Giver.

9.  Explain the following description: “The sled had…that same mysterious quality that the apple had had so briefly. And Fiona’s hair.”

10.  Find evidence in past chapters that gave clues to the fact that members of the community did not see colors.

11.  Jonas suddenly felt sure that the community had lost too much in its compromise for control. Did The Giver agree with him?

12.  The Giver told Jonas that the seeing-beyond happened to him in a different way. Guess what way that might have been.