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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When can The Giver apply for release?
(a) When he has reached a certain age.
(b) When the Elders give him permission.
(c) During Jonas's training.
(d) After Jonas has been trained.

2. What will happen if Jonas dies?
(a) He will forget everything.
(b) The Giver will receive his memories.
(c) His parents will receive his bad memories.
(d) His memories will go back to the people.

3. Where do parents move to after their children have grown up?
(a) The nursery.
(b) The childless adult area.
(c) The school.
(d) The House of the Old.

4. What happens to the landscape as Jonas rides upon it in Chapter 22?
(a) It rains and the roads became slippery.
(b) Tt changes and becomes difficult to ride on.
(c) It turns into vivid colors.
(d) It snows and Jonas cannot see.

5. What happens to twins born into the community?
(a) They do not exist in the community.
(b) They are given to one family.
(c) One gets released.
(d) They are separated at birth.

6. When did the council add the no release rule to the list for Jonas?
(a) After the old Receiver died.
(b) At the Ceremony of Twelve.
(c) When Jonas was born.
(d) When Lily was born.

7. What does Lily want to talk about back at the house in Chapter 17?
(a) Birds.
(b) Comfort Objects.
(c) Bicycles.
(d) Babies.

8. What memories will The Giver transfer to Jonas to prepare him for his escape?
(a) Fear and joy.
(b) Courage and strength.
(c) Adventure and play.
(d) Skills and knowledge.

9. How do the children react to Jonas when he does not want to play the game in the field?
(a) They are irritated.
(b) They ask him to leave.
(c) They question him.
(d) They ask him to join.

10. What action does Father perform on the smaller twin?
(a) He swaddles the infant in cloth.
(b) He burps the infant.
(c) He gives the infant a bottle filled with a liquid.
(d) He injects the infant with a liquid.

11. What event does Jonas watch take place right before his eyes during the memory of war?
(a) A boy his age dies right next to him.
(b) A long journey through a forest.
(c) A bomb explodes.
(d) Two riflemen kill each other in unison.

12. Jonas asks The Giver if he has ever had what member of family?
(a) A mother.
(b) A father.
(c) A brother.
(d) A spouse.

13. What does the Giver give Jonas a memory of that gives Jonas great pain?
(a) War.
(b) School.
(c) Flooding.
(d) Drowning.

14. Who does Jonas discover is scheduled to be released the morning after the twins?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Larissa.
(c) Asher.
(d) Lily.

15. Jonas experiences the following emotions during the war memory EXCEPT:
(a) Fear.
(b) Courage.
(c) Death.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because Gabriel is doing so well, where do the nurturers decide that Gabriel must be taken?

2. What does Jonas suggest The Giver do so his load will not be so heavy?

3. What happens to the sled during the memory sequence in Chapter 12?

4. What memory does Jonas give Gabriel during the night as he is trying to calm him down?

5. What object does Father take out of the cupboard after the identical twins are weighted?

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