CHAPTER SIX

ü Write in the AGE GROUPS chart a short summary of the changes happening in each group as you

read about them in this chapter.

1) What was the community celebrating in chapter 6?

The ceremony of assignment naming and giving children a family

2) What hairstyle did Lily ( and all sevens) have to wear? Did she like it?

She had to wear hair ribbons she didn't like it

3) What important task did the eighth's start to do?

Independence

4)Why did fours, fives, and sixes have to wear jackets with buttons on the back?

To start being independent and know how to dress up alones

5) What did the jacket with buttons on the front represent for Eights?

Independent

6) When Nines got their bicycle, what did it represent?

Moving gradually out into the community

7) What special situation was given to Gabriel due to his condition?

He's granted an additional year of nurturing be before his naming and placement

8) Where were the released people sent?

To elsewhere and never returned to the community

9)Where did people go who wanted to leave the community?

a. Elsewhere b. the House of the Old c. another community nearby

10)What happened to little Caleb?

littl e caleb had wondered away unnoticed and had fallen to the river

11)What did the ceremony of Loss consist of?

Murmure the name of Caleb through the entire day

12)What happened if you didn’t fit in?

You can be released and apply to elsewhere

13) Who chose a person’s spouse when they married?

a. their parents b. they chose themselves c. the Committee of Elders

VOCABULARY

Fit in

CHAPTER SEVEN
ü Write down in the Assignments chart the new assignments you come across as you read this

chapter.

1) After children turned 12 years old, they became

a. Thirteen b. adults c. old

2) Why did Jonas’s friend Asher get smacked when he was three?

Because he confused words

3) What did Jonas’s friend Asher say instead of ‘snack’ when he was three?

a. ‘slack’ b. ‘smack’ c. ‘spork’

4) Why was Jonas upset at the ceremony?

a. he was nervous b. he got skipped c. he tripped and fell

5) What was Asher’s Assignment at the ceremony?

A memory receiver

6) Why did Jonas think his turn got skipped during the ceremony?

a. because he’s special b. they forgot his number c. he’d done something wrong

VOCABULARY

Tattletale (72)

Wand 75
Toddler76

Badges 77

Skipped 78

Dizzy 79

CHAPTER EIGHT

1) What had Jonas been selected for?

To be their next Receiver of Memory

2) What happened to the previous Receiver of Memory ten years before?

Sometimes that causes all a terrible disconfort

3) What 4 the characteristics must a Receiver of Memory have?

Intelligence., integrity, courage. and wisdom

4) What difficulty involved the training?

a. Losing your family b. Being punished c. Physical pain

5) What was the last capacity should a receiver of memory have?

The capacity to see beyond

6) How did Jonas respond to being selected?

a. he cheered ‘hooray’ b. he was unsure, insecure c. he began to cry

 7) What did the audience chant when Jonas was selected?

a. ‘Awesome, awesome…’ b. ‘Jonas, Jonas…’ c. ‘One of us, one of us…’

8) Why was Jonas afraid?

a. there were many people b. he forgot his lines c. he didn’t know about the job

VOCABULARY

Wisdom 83

Beyond 85

CHAPTER NINE

1) How did Jonas feel after the Ceremony of the Twelve?

horrible embarrassment and worry

2) What happened to the girl that was trained to be Receiver of Memory before Jonas?

that she chose death over living a lonely and isolated life filled with painful memories

3) What was in Jonas’s instruction folder?

there was a single printed sheet with his instructions for his training.

4) What was the final rule on his sheet of instructions?

You may lie.

5) What did Jonas realize when he read this final rule?

that he will be exempt from the rules regarding rudeness

Vocabulary:

Rudeness 92

I’m starving 95

CHAPTER TEN

1) What about the bicycles changed after the Ceremony of the Twelves?

After the Ceremony of Twelve, the nameplates on their bicycles is “removed by the

Maintenance Crew and replaced with the style that indicate(s) citizen-in-training

2) Where would Jonas receive his training?

a. In an Annexe to the House of Olds b. In a remote building on a hill c) At

home

3) What was different about the door where the Receiver of Memory was? Why was it that

way?

The locks are simply to insure The Receiver's privacy because he needs concentration.

It would be difficult if citizens wandered in, looking for the Department of Bicycle Repair, or

something.

4) Why was Jonas surprised to see all of the books in the Receiver’s office?
 Because, he'd never seen a book, except for a dictionary, community map, and Rules

book.

5) What was the most relevant feature of the Receiver of Memories, after reading the

description of him?

a) Intelligent b) Old c) Wise

6) What memories did the Receiver want to share with Jonas?

the memories of the world

7) What was the first memory that the Receiver gave to Jonas?

sledding down a hill in the snow. He also receives the memory of sunburn, his first

encounter with pain in a memory.

Vocabulary

Sympathy 100

Furnished 98

GLOSSARY CHAPTERS 6-10

Sympathy furnished rudeness starving wisdom beyond tattletale

fit in Wand Toddler Badges Skipped Dizzy

Write these words in the correct sentences.

1. Maria doesn’t …………fit in…………….anywhere. She feels so left out and lonely.

2. Our new flat was beautiful …………furnished…………..It had all we needed to live
comfortably.

3. When we ended up the race we were ………starving………so we ate a whole pizza each.

4. Alex is such a ………rudeness……………He’s always telling the teacher what other

students do wrong..

5. When my daughter was a toddler, she loved to play with her teddy bear.

6. When the match finished I was so tired that I started to feel ……dizzy…………. and I
had to lie down for a while.

7. When her mother died I felt ………sympathy………..for her.

8. Experience is the mother of ……wisdom…………..

9. He ………skipped a……….a few classes and when he came back, he was totally lost.

10. Harry's magic ……………wand………turns everything it touches to green.

11. “To infinity and ………beyond…………” says Buzzlight Year in Toy Story.

12. ………Tattletale……………………is the opposite of politeness.