The Giver: Chapters 5-8
Chapter 5
1. What is the morning ritual?
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2. Why must Jonas start taking a pill every day?
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3. What do you think about the society in which Jonas lives?
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4. What does this society repress?
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Chapter 6
1. What values does the book’s society embrace and encourage?
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2. What is interdependence?
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3. What is the difference between loss and release?
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4. How does the author build the interest of Jonas’s Ceremony of Twelve?
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5. Who makes the important decisions in the book’s society?
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Chapter 7
1. How does the Ceremony of Twelve start?
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2. What do the numbers mean for each person?
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3. Why is the number 19 skipped in the assignments?
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4. What do you think Jonas’s assignment will be?
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Chapter 8
1. Why do Jonas and the audience feel ill at ease at the start of Chapter 8?
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2. What is announced as Jonas’s assignment? What is the job?
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3. What qualities does the Chief Elder explain Jonas will need?
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4. How will Jonas’s life change as he trains for his new job?
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