The Giver Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What is the first memory the Giver transmits to Jonas?
Sunshine warming bare skin
A family celebrating a holiday
A sled ride down a snowy hill
A battlefield filled with wounded soldiers
2. Which trade-off most accurately explains the community's commitment to Sameness?
It preserves family loyalty by limiting public responsibilities.
It protects memories by allowing only adults to discuss the past.
It reduces pain and unpredictability by sacrificing choice, difference, and deep emotion.
It prevents hunger by requiring every family to produce its own food.
3. Who was Rosemary, the Receiver-in-training whose release caused stored memories to return to the community?
Jonas's sister
Fiona's predecessor at the House of the Old
The Chief Elder's childhood friend
The Giver's daughter
4. At the novel's opening, an aircraft mistakenly flies over the community. What response follows?
Residents are ordered indoors, and the pilot is later announced to be released.
Families assemble at the Auditorium while the pilot is reassigned.
The Receiver removes everyone's memory of the incident.
The Committee explains that the flight was a planned security drill.
5. Which detail is explicitly present near the novel's ending as Jonas and Gabriel approach Elsewhere?
Jonas sees lights and believes he hears music while descending on a sled.
Boundary guards announce that they have entered another community.
An aircraft lands and carries them to safety.
The Giver waits beside a doorway to welcome them.
6. In the escape plan, why does the Giver intend to remain in the community after Jonas leaves?
To erase evidence that Jonas ever trained with him
To persuade the Elders to appoint Gabriel as the next Receiver
To help residents endure and understand the memories that will return to them
To continue holding every memory until Jonas comes back
7. When Jonas notices that an apple briefly seems to change, what ability is beginning to emerge?
The ability to hear memories stored in objects
The Capacity to See Beyond, beginning with the color red
The ability to predict an object's movement
The power to alter an object's physical form
8. Which unusual instruction in Jonas's rules changes how he evaluates what other people tell him?
He may request release at any time.
He may lie.
He may refuse memories that cause physical pain.
He may discuss his training with his family.
9. When Jonas asks his parents whether they love him, their response most clearly demonstrates what about the community?
Parents are forbidden to express opinions in front of children.
Family units secretly retain emotions that public rules prohibit.
Only the Receiver is permitted to understand words connected with affection.
Its demand for precise language has helped strip family relationships of deep emotional expression.
10. Why does Jonas stop taking the daily pills prescribed for Stirrings?
He believes the pills are causing his ability to see color.
He needs to save the pills for Gabriel's journey.
The Giver tells him the pills will interfere with memory transfer.
He recognizes that they suppress feelings he now wants to experience fully.
11. At the Ceremony of Twelve, which Assignment does Jonas receive?
Nurturer
Receiver of Memory
Caretaker of the Old
Assistant Director of Recreation
12. Which group shares the unusual pale-eye trait noted in the novel?
Jonas, the Giver, and Gabriel
The Chief Elder, Fiona, and Gabriel
Jonas, his father, and Rosemary
Jonas, Asher, and Lily
13. What is Jonas's father's occupation in the community?
Justice
Instructor of Threes
Laborer
Nurturer
14. Why does Jonas flee with Gabriel earlier than he and the Giver planned?
He learns that Gabriel is scheduled to be released the next morning.
He discovers that the Giver has been arrested.
He sees Asher preparing an aircraft to leave without them.
He is ordered to report for his own release.
15. After Jonas watches the recording of his father performing a release, what does he understand that the word “release” can mean?
Permanent exile into the wilderness
Reassignment to a distant community
Death caused by a lethal injection
Temporary sedation before rehabilitation
16. Which Assignment does Fiona receive at the Ceremony of Twelve?
Birthmother
Caretaker of the Old
Nurturer
Instructor of Sixes