🎯✔️ Chapter 4-6 Questions

Chapter 4:

What is the best meaning of “serene” as it is used in the following sentence?

“It was a serene and slow-paced place, unlike the busy centers of manufacture and distribution where the daily work of the community occurred.” (Page 36)

• calm

• confusing

• secret

• serious

Chapter 4:

Which detail best shows Jonas’s caring nature?

• “She looked toward Jonas and smiled, but her dark eyes were clouded and blank. He realized she was blind.” (37)

• “He had worked here before; he knew what to do.” (38)

• “‘Your turn, Larissa,’ he said, reading the nametag on the woman’s robe. ‘I’ll just start the water and then help you up.’” (38)

• “Jonas thought Larissa had drifted into sleep, as the Old often did, and he was careful to keep his motions steady and gentle so he wouldn’t wake her.” (39)

Chapter 5:

What does the dream-telling ritual reveal about the community’s values?

• They value cleverness and imagination.

• They value emotional peace over privacy.

• They value family togetherness and sharing.

• They value individuality over group togetherness.

Chapter 5:

Which statement best describes Jonas’s community?

• The community encourages each person to feel proud of their uniqueness.

• The community is made up of separate groups with different viewpoints.

• The community has many rules that keep people safe, calm, and equal.

• The community is lawless and people there are in constant danger.

Chapter 6:

What is the best meaning of “meticulously” as it is used in the following sentence?

“The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” (Page 61)

• annoyingly

• lazily

• quickly

• thoroughly

Chapter 6:

Which detail best shows the level of thought the Committee of Elders puts into organizing community members’ lives?

• Gabriel…had not yet gained the weight appropriate to his days of life nor begun to sleep soundly… Normally such a newchild would be labeled Inadequate and released from the community. (Page 54)

• I heard about a guy who was absolutely certain he was going to be assigned Engineer,...and instead they gave him Sanitation worker. (Page 60)

• If you don’t fit in, you can apply for Elsewhere and be released. (Page 61)

• Even the Matching of Spouses was given such weighty consideration that sometimes an adult who applied to receive a spouse waited months or even years before a Match was approved and announced. (Pages 61-62)

Chapter 6:

How does the structure of the community affect Jonas's point of view?

• It helps Jonas see Fritz’s potential.

• It causes Jonas to look at Fritz and his parents as disappointments.

• It makes Jonas feel like he should befriend Fritz to help him improve.

• It forces Jonas to acknowledge the things Fritz does well instead of his mistakes.

Chapter 6:

Which detail best supports the idea that members of this community see being different as undesirable (a bad thing)?

• “Fritz, who lived in the dwelling next door to theirs, received his bike and almost immediately bumped into the podium with it.”

• “Fritz was a very awkward child.”

• “His transgressions were small ones, always: shoes on the wrong feet, schoolwork misplaced, failure to study adequately for a quiz.”

• “But each such error reflected negatively on his parents’ guidance and infringed on the community’s sense of order and success.”