Text Dependent Questions

What does spurted most likely mean in this sentence?

• suddenly and forcefully

• say something while trying not to laugh

• say something while trying not to cry

• joyfully with excitement

What meaning and tone does the word spurted convey to the reader?

• Velia was very happy.

• Velia was very tired.

• Velia was very enthusiastic.

• Velia was very angry.

Reread this sentence on pages 77–78: “Velia pushed Pita toward me and got up to stretch her long, coltish legs.” The author uses the word, "Coltish" to describe....

• Velia long hair

• Pita's strength and courage

• a comparison between Velia long legs to a young horse

• the difference between two characters

As the read we learn things that the other characters to not know.

1. Why might the other have chosen to give the reader this perspective? What effect does it create? What is your point of view about Odilia's decision.
2. Which line from the text best supports your response. Record the page number and write the sentence from the text.

On pages 76–77, what happens to the narrator that the reader knows about, but the other sisters don’t?

Part A: Which character traits best describe The Giver in Chapter 15 of The Giver?

• pleased and agreeable

• quiet and relaxed

• embarrassed and ashamed

• suffering and miserable

Part B: Which two details below best supports Part A? CHOOSE 2!

• “‘forgive me’ he said” Page 151

• “Jonas helped him to his chair” Page 149

• “‘Please,’ he gasped, ‘take some of the pain’” Page 149

• “entered the memory that was torturing The Giver” Page 149

• “what he had done” Page 151

What are the three best details below that agree with Part A? CHOOSE 3!

• “although he had learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude” Page 153

• “but the choice was not his” Page 152

• “now he understood about animals” Page 153

• “he didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor” Page 152

• “now he understood the joy of being an individual” Page 153

Read this excerpt from page 150:

 

The colors of carnage were grotesquely bright; the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy’s yellow hair.

The boy stared at him. “Water,” he begged again. When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve.

 

Part A: What is the meaning of the word crimson as used above?

• red

• heavy

• soggy

• green

Which detail below best supports Part A?

• “wetness”

• “ripped shreds of grass”

• “rough and dusty fabric”

• “new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth”