The Giver: Early Chapters Comprehension Quiz

What is Jonas most worried about at the beginning of the novel?

• His younger sister’s behavior

• The upcoming Ceremony of Twelve

• Losing his best friend

• Forgetting his school assignments

What word does Jonas decide best describes his feelings about December?

• Scared

• Apprehensive

• Nervous

• Excited

In Jonas’s community, how are strong emotions expressed?

• Through music

• By writing poems

• By sharing feelings at the family unit’s evening ritual

• By meeting with the Elders

What punishment is given to the pilot who made a mistake and frightened the community?

• He is released

• He is sent to another community

• He is demoted to a laborer

• He must apologize publicly

What rule is often broken by children in Jonas’s community?

• Riding bicycles before the Ceremony of Nine

• Speaking without raising a hand

• Staying outside after dark

• Playing games with balls

Why does Jonas’s father look forward to the Ceremony of One each year?

• He enjoys seeing new babies assigned to family units

• He helps match spouses together

• He organizes the snacks and decorations

• He gives a speech to the community

What does Jonas’s father reveal he sometimes does with the rules?

• He strictly enforces them

• He sometimes bends them

• He ignores them completely

• He rewrites them

What important event will happen at the Ceremony of Twelve?

• Children receive their bicycles

• Children are given their career assignments

• Families are given new houses

• Babies are named

What unusual feature does Jonas notice about the newchild, Gabriel?

• He is larger than most babies

• He has light-colored eyes like Jonas

• He never cries

• He can already walk

Why are Jonas’s parents uneasy about Lily wanting to be a Birthmother?

• Birthmothers are not allowed to marry

• Birthmothers do not live with family units

• Birthmothers have three years of childbearing and then hard labor

• Birthmothers must leave the community afterward