Chapter 7 of The Giver
Write your answers legibly and in complete sentences.
Read through these before you read the chapter, and answer #1, #2, and either #3 or #4.
1. How would you characterize (describe) the chief elder?
2. What do you think of the ritual of thanking people – for example, for their feelings, their dreams, and their childhood? Should our society adopt this ritual?
3. Do the assignments given out seem appropriate to you? Explain.
4. Why do you think the Chief Elder skips Jonas? Give as many possibilities as you can.
Chapter 8 of The Giver
Write your answers legibly and in complete sentences.
Questions for chapter 8: Read through these before you read, and answer #1, #2, and then #3 or #4.
1. What is unusual about The Receiver? What else in the book can you connect this to?
What meaning do you find in this?
2. What makes choosing a Receiver especially difficult?
3. What do you think a Receiver of Memory might do? Could anyone in our country/culture be considered a Receiver of Memory? In other countries/cultures that you know?
4. Imagine that you are Jonas. What questions do you want to ask The Receiver when you meet him?
