The Giver – Chapter 10 and 11 Worksheet

By Lois Lowry
p.p. 72-87

a violent or forceful flow of fluid

Chapter 10

1. How was the Giver’s home different than other family dwellings?
The most important difference is that the Giver's home has walls covered with books. In the
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other homes of the
community, there were reference books and the book of the rules of the community, in other
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words, only books that
had some practical use, nothing like novels or poetry.
2. Why do you think the Receiver’s annex was done up this way?

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3. Why was the Receiver eager to train Jonas?

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The Giver says he thinks of his own when he is in great pain, but that he cannot
apply for release until Jonas is trained. At Jonas's insistence, the Giver tells him
what happened. The failed Receiver was intelligent and eager to learn, and her
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name was Rosemary
4. What exactly is the Receiver going to give to Jonas? Why do you think he has this

in the first place, and what does he do with it?

The Receiver replies that the memories he will give Jonas are not just memories from his childhood. They are the
memories of the entire __________________________________________________________________
world, going back through generations and generations of Receivers. ... The Receiver
decides to transmit the memory of snow to him.
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5. How did the Receiver transmit the memories?

The memory __________________________________________________________________

passes from one person to another. The Giver tells Jonas to lie face down and
remove his tunic. Then he puts his hands on his back and transmits the memory.
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6. What was the first memory given to Jonas?

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sledding down a hill

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 Chapter 11

1. Vocabulary:

Torrent: ____________________________________________________

Poised: ____________________________________________________
marked by balance or equilibrium

Conveyance: ________________________________________________
the action of conveying

Unwieldy: ___________________________________________________
not easily managed, handled, or used

Obsolete: ____________________________________________________
no longer in use or no longer useful

2. How does the author clearly tell the reader that Jonas has never seen or hear of

snow before?

He__________________________________________________________________
is completely perplexed by snow, as he has never seen it before
and is transfixed by the white powder that is all
around him and which continues to fall.
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3. What does Jonas learn about climate control?

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He explains that getting rid of more extreme weather, like snow and sunshine,
was part of the community's decision to embrace sameness, which they feel
solved many of their problems.
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4. What else did Jonas experience on his first encounter with the Giver?

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He also receives the memory of sunburn, his first encounter with pain in a memory. Jonas sees
Fiona's hair
"change" the same way the apple did. ... When he feels intense physical pain for the first time,
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he is shocked.
5. Given Jonas’ experience with the memories, what conclusions can you make

about his community?

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6. Sometimes actions speak louder than words. When Jonas said he understood now

what it was meant by pain after experience the sunburn, the Receiver didn’t
respond. Instead, he sat silently for a second before speaking. What does this

gesture tell you about what is to come (foreshadowing)?

the Giver is not allowed to give him relief-of-pain, and Jonas limps home
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and goes to bed early.
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