The Giver (Ch. 18-end)

Why is Jonas not permitted to apply for release?

• If Jonas left, all the valuable time and money spent on his training would be wasted.
• If Jonas left, all of the Committee of Elders would die of broken hearts because they love him so much.
• If Jonas left, all the memories he had accumulated would enter the minds of the citizens and create chaos.
• If Jonas left, the Giver would be lonely.

What was the name of the failed Receiver that was chosen ten years ago?

• Jenny
• Melanie
• Fiona
• Rosemary

Why does the nurturing center release one child from each set of identical twins?

• The staff there is crazy.
• Two identical people cannot exist and only 50 births are allowed per year.
• They need to practice their releasing techniques.
• One twin is always seriously ill at birth.

Why does Jonas leave the community before the time that he and the Giver had planned?

• He realized that the Giver is conspiring with the Committee of Elders to trap him.
• He finds out that Gabriel will be released the next morning and wants to save his life.
• The wind is good, and he needs to take a boat.
• He wants to bring Fiona, and he knows the Giver would not approve.

How does Jonas keep the search planes from finding him and Gabriel?

• He covers their bodies with thick, dirty leaves.

• He shoots down the planes.

• He transmits memories of cold so that heat-seeking planes cannot locate him.

• He stays very still because the planes have motion sensors.

What does Jonas see (or think he sees) as he nears the bottom of the hill on the sled?

• Colored lights in the windows of the houses
• His parents waiting for him
• A search party from the community
• The cold hand of death reaching for him

What does Jonas find out is the meaning of release? 

• To receive a deadly injection 
• To be released into another community 
• Boarding a plane to a new country 
• Taking a pill that will kill you 

What does Jonas learn about the Giver's daughter? 

• She ran away from the community 
• She died of a rare illness when she was 4
• She was chosen as the Receiver of Memory 10 years before 
• She applied for a new family since the Giver could not spend much time with her