Why Sameness is Harmful

Multiple Choice

Why does everyone know that Lily's comment about keeping Gabriel has to be a joke?  Because Lily knows that ...

• Gabriel's parents will be taking him home soon.
• He is going to be released, soon.
• Her family isn't allowed to have another child.
• Gabriel has to stay at The Center until he is a 5.

Multiple Choice

Why can't their society have twins?

• It would cause an upset
• They would trick people
• That would be confusing
• The Chief Elder would cry

Multiple Choice

Which attribute is the Chief Elder unable to describe because she does not understand it?

• Wisdom
• Courage
• Capacity to See Beyond
• Intelligence

Multiple Choice

Why is it a rule to not call attention to things that make someone different?

• It is not a rule.

• The community wants everyone to be the same.

• No one is different.

• They don't want to hurt someone's feelings.

Multiple Choice

In The Giver, people did not have to make major life choices so they would not _________ from severe emotional or physical pain.

• transgress

• soothe

• suffer

• nurture

Multiple Choice

Why can't people in the community make their own choices?

• It would make things messy.

• It would ruin the order.

• They might choose wrong.

• None of these.

Multiple Choice

What is a utopian society?

• Relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice

• Modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect

• A society filled with fun and games.

• Characteristic of a town or city.

Multiple Choice

What are the two occasions when "release" is not a punishment?

• The physically and mentally handicapped.
• The elderly and a newchild.
• The unintelligent and defiant.
• The self-centered and conceited.

Multiple Choice

Elsewhere is...

• beyond the river.
• where people go when they die.
• not real.
• another part of the community.

Multiple Choice

Why doesn't Jonas's family support Fritz getting a bicycle?

• He can't ride a bicycle yet.

• They are afraid he will crash into something.

• He is always making small transgressions.

• His bicycle will be a newer model than theirs.

Multiple Choice

Why do the members of the community take pills?

• for Stirrings
• for lying
• as a vitamin supplement
• to see beyond

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a time when release is a celebration? 

• the old
• committing a crime
• new child
• your birthday

Multiple Choice

What is used to discipline the young and old?

• threat of release
• pills
• threat of release
• a discipline wand

Multiple Choice

What is a replacement child?

• A clone of someone who has been released.

• A child who takes the place of a naughty child.

• A third or fourth child who joins a family after the oldest has left the home.

• A child who takes the place of one who has died.

Multiple Choice

Which rule is most frequently broken in Jonas's community?

• You may not lie.
• Children must not ride bicycles until they are nine.
• You may not go Elsewhere.
• The names of new children are secret until the Naming Ceremony.

Multiple Choice

Why do the members of the community take pills?

• for Stirrings
• for lying
• as a vitamin supplement
• to see beyond

Multiple Choice

A problems with taking away individuality could be that

• People feel more united and happy

• People might feel trapped, depressed, or invisible

• People become more creative

• People have less freedom

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are consequences of erasing culture and diversity according to the slides?

• Communities gain more wisdom

• Communities miss out on different foods, ways of life, ideas

• People don't learn how to solve real problems

• People become less open-minded

Draw

Draw what "Sameness" looks like (you can make it symbolic)

Multiple Choice

What is one real-world impact of stopping deep emotions in a community, as described in the presentation?

• People become more logical

• People can't build meaningful relationships

• People are always happy

• People never make mistakes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a consequence of ignoring our created need for relationships, as described in the slides?

• People become more creative and inventive.

• Individuals lose their sense of love, family, and friends.

• Society becomes more technologically advanced.

• Government gains more control over people's lives.

Multiple Choice

With Sameness, there is no

• real food

• real relationships

• real schools

• real plants

Open Ended

Explain how the loss of creativity and invention can impact society. Use examples from the slides to support your answer.

Multiple Select

According to the slides, which actions do leaders take to enforce sameness in society?

• Encourage individuality and differences

• Watch people constantly

• Keep punishments for major offenses

• have an army waiting to intervene

Open Ended

Based on the slides and the summary sentence, what do you think is the worst part of 'sameness' ? Explain your choice (at least 2 sentences)

Multiple Choice

Why don't they have snow or hills anymore?

• Global warming

• too hard to farm

• They wanted everything to look the same

Multiple Choice

Why did the Giver say the community went to sameness?

• Sameness was pleasant
• People in the community were tired of the old ways

• Without sameness people might make the wrong choices
• People were afraid of making wrong choices