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Chapter 9

 * 1) How do people start to treat Jonas now that he is the new Receiver?
 * 2) What do you think might have happened to the female Receiver?
 * 3) Why is Jonas puzzled by the rules he was given for training?
 * 4) If the community believes that everyone must use precise language because it is important to be truthful in the society, what could be the reasons behind Jonas’s rules?
 * 5) Do you think other members of the community might lie? Explain your thinking.

**Chapter 10**

 * 1) What does Jonas find strange about the Receiver’s dwelling?
 * 2) Why is The Giver allowed to have many books while the other members of the community are only allowed three? How are books and memory related?
 * 3) How does The Receiver transmit memories to Jonas?
 * 4) Why do you think Jonas doesn’t know what the words //sled//, //snow//, and //downhill// mean?
 * 5) Why does Jonas have no concept of pain? How would your life be different if you had never experienced pain?

Chapter 11

 * 1) Why do you think Jonas must experience the memories rather than just hear about them?
 * 2) Why do you think The Receiver was a little sad after the first day of training?
 * 3) Why does The Giver say “to have memories is a burden”? How does it ease the burden of the Giver to transmit memories to Jonas.
 * 4) Why do you think Jonas’s world eliminated sun, hills, and snow?
 * 5) In what ways do we preserve memories in our society?