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6-10 Vocab/Comp for The Giver

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which term means: confused or bewildered

a)

Dazed

b)

Serene

2.

What term means: Violations of laws or rules

a)

Exuberant

b)

Transgressions

3.

What term means: Pardon

a)

Cringed

b)

Reprieve

4.

What term means: Purchase

a)

Acquisition

b)

Infringed

5.

What term means: High-Spirited

a)

Exuberant

b)

Dazed

6.

What term means: Indicated or pointed out

a)

Designated

b)

Infringed

7.

What term means: Calm

a)

Serene

b)

Throng

8.

What term means: Shrank back in fear

a)

Designated

b)

Cringed

9.

What term means: Intruded

a)

Infringed

b)

Reprieve

10.

What term means: Crowd

a)

Throng

b)

Cringed

11.

What term means: Decrease

a)

Diminish

b)

Exempted

12.

What term means: Agonizing physical or mental pain

a)

Anguish

b)

Crescendo

13.

What term means: Noticeable

a)

Exhilarating

b)

Conspicuous

14.

What term means: Freed from obligation

a)

Exempted

b)

Diminish

15.

What term means: Causing to feel energetic

a)

Exhilarating

b)

Conspicuous

16.

What term means: Unrehearsed

a)

Spontaneously

b)

Benign

17.

What term means: A gradual increase in volume

a)

Anguish

b)

Crescendo

18.

What term means: Complete agreement

a)

Unanimous

b)

Prohibited

19.

What term means: Harmless

a)

Benign

b)

Anguish

20.

What term means: Forbidden

a)

Prohibited

b)

Spontaneously

21.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives a name and family unit.

22.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives a jacket buttoned in the front.

23.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives a jacket button down the back.

24.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives a jacket with smaller buttons and pockets.

25.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives a bicycle.

26.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives a hair cut.

27.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives new undergarments.

28.

In the yearly Ceremony (a)   receives longer trousers with a pocket.

29.

The Ceremony of __________ is where the members receive their first ____________.

(a)  

30.

What does the item: jacket with smaller buttons and pockets, symbolize in the novel?

a)

Maturity and keeping track of possessions

b)

a more mature style

31.

What does the item: bicycle

symbolize in the novel?

a)

Moving out into the Community

b)

Taking on adult responsibilities

32.

What does the item jacket buttoned down the back, symbolize in the novel?

a)

Help each other, learn interdependence

b)

Bodily changes

33.

What does the item longer trousers with a pocket, symbolize in the novel?

a)

Carrying a calculator in school

b)

Cool things

34.

What does the item: jacket buttoned down the front, symbolize in the novel?

a)

Independence and growing up

b)

maturity and keeping track of possessions.

35.

What does the item: hair cut, symbolize in the novel?

a)

A more mature style

b)

Help each other, learn interdependence

36.

What does the item; new undergarments, symbolize in the novel?

a)

Bodily changes

b)

Independence and growing up

37.

What does the Assignment symbolize in the novel?

a)

Taking on adult responsibilities

b)

Growing up

38.

What Assignment did Asher get?

a)

He was named Junior Partner in the Law Office.

b)

He was named Assistant Director of Recreation.

39.

T/F: The Chief Elder called Jonas's number, then told him to wait for last to get his Assignment.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

What was Jonas's Assignment?

a)

Receiver of Memory

b)

Junior Pilot

41.

T/F: The Assignment Jonas received was the most important job in the Community.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

The Chief Elder said the person in the job Jonas would have needed four qualities, which of the following was NOT one of them?

a)

agility

b)

intelligence

43.

T/F: Jonas disagreed with the committee's choice of his Assignment.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

T/F: The last person who had been chosen for Jonas's Assignment was not successful.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

From what rules was Jonas exempted?

a)

Rudeness, He could ask anyone any question and he would receive an answer.

b)

Travel, He could drive and go anywhere he wanted without asking permission.

46.

What was Jonas prohibited from doing?

a)

Not allowed to tell his dreams.

b)

Not allowed to eat meat.

47.

What was Jonas allowed to do that he had not been allowed to do before?

a)

Lie

b)

Skip school

48.

Something in the Annex surprised Jonas, because it was something that the ordinary people did not have. What was it?

a)

Television set

b)

Books

49.

T/F: In Jonas's new Assignment, he would learn to predict the future.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

What did Jonas find out about first?

a)

Snow

b)

Rain