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The Giver Study Guide

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The author's attitude toward their writing

a)

Tone

b)

Mood

c)

Connotation

d)

Diction

2.

What is the emotion a word gives off?

a)

Tone

b)

Denotation

c)

Connotation

d)

Mood

3.

Candid, Truthful, Spiteful, Hateful, Cautionary are all ???

a)

Nouns

b)

Tone Words

c)

Similes

d)

Hyperboles

4.

What is a reference to something famous outside of a text in a text? For example: biblical, pop-culture, literary

a)

connotation

b)

allusion

c)

alliteration

d)

plot

5.

What figurative language is being used here? Then, the first wave of pain. He gasped. It was as if a hatchet lay lodged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade."

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

6.

What figurative language is being used? ''Then the men were gone, speeding toward the horizon in a vehicle that spit pebbles from its whirling tires.

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

alliteration

7.

What type of figurative language is being used? "The plan seemed startingly simple."

a)

alliteration

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

8.

What type of figurative language is being used? Jonas said that he was starving while still in the community.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

alliteration

9.

What figurative language is being used? "Psssheeewwww!" A child's voice, coming from behind a nearby bush, made the sound. "Pow! ... The children were playing war that Jonas now knew wasn't a game to play.

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoeia

10.

What does objective mean?

a)

a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

b)

not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

c)

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

d)

an intentionally false statement.

11.

What should be included in a summary?

a)

main ideas and minor details

b)

main ideas with a plethora of description

c)

main ideas of who, what, when, where, and why with no minor details

d)

minor details and description

12.

The message of the story that we can learn universally

a)

mood

b)

tone

c)

theme

d)

symbolism

13.

“He could feel that there was risk involved, though he wasn’t sure how. ‘Well,’ he said finally, grasping for an explanation, ‘they had fire right there in that room. There was a fire burning in the fireplace. And there were candles on a table. I can certainly see why those things were outlawed.


“‘Still,’ he said slowly, almost to himself, ‘I did like the light they made. And the warmth’” (126).


Infer what the fire in the candles and fireplace be a symbol of.

a)

destruction

b)

fire

c)

love

d)

hate

14.

Which TWO of the following quotes best support the theme that individuality is better than conformity?

a)

“The Giver shrugged. ‘Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness...We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.’”

b)

“‘If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?’ He looked down at himself, at the colorless fabric of his clothing. ‘But it’s all the same, always.’”

c)

“‘He might make wrong choices.’ … ‘We don’t dare to let people make choices of their own...What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And they chose wrong?’”

d)

“‘We really have to protect people from wrong choices.’”

e)

“‘Life here is so orderly, so predictable--so painless.’”

15.

Speak in a dull monotonous way

a)

disposition

b)

palpable

c)

invariably

d)

droning

16.

a person's inherent qualities of mind and character.

a)

disposition

b)

droning

c)

palpable

d)

invariably

17.

able to be touched or felt.

a)

disposition

b)

invariably

c)

palpable

d)

taut

18.

bright

a)

languid

b)

luminous

c)

taut

d)

perils

19.

slow and relaxed

a)

taut

b)

languid

c)

briskly

d)

sarcastic

20.

a hole or would made with a sharp point

a)

perils

b)

gestures

c)

puncturing

d)

vigilant