What does Jonas do at the end?

Flees the community with Gabriel

The Giver Quiz: Sameness, Memories and the Receiver

This the giver quiz steps into a world without color or choice. Play 10 interactive questions on Lois Lowry's 1993 novel, its Newbery Medal, a community built on Sameness, the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas chosen as Receiver of Memory, the old Giver, first seeing the color red, what release really means, baby Gabriel and Jonas's escape.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Author
Who wrote The Giver?
Award
Which award did The Giver win?
Same
What is the community built on?
Cer
At which ceremony do children get assignments?
Role
Which role is Jonas given?
Giver
What does the Giver pass to Jonas?
Color
Which color does Jonas see first?
Release
What does release truly mean?
Baby
Which baby does Jonas try to save?
End
What does Jonas do at the end?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who wrote The Giver?
Answer: Lois Lowry
Published in 1993.
Q2: Which award did The Giver win?
Answer: Newbery Medal
In 1994.
Q3: What is the community built on?
Answer: Sameness
No differences allowed.
Q4: At which ceremony do children get assignments?
Answer: The Ceremony of Twelve
Choosing jobs.
Q5: Which role is Jonas given?
Answer: Receiver of Memory
A rare honor.
Q6: What does the Giver pass to Jonas?
Answer: Memories of the past
Through his hands.
Q7: Which color does Jonas see first?
Answer: Red
Starting with an apple.
Q8: What does release truly mean?
Answer: Death
A terrible discovery.
Q9: Which baby does Jonas try to save?
Answer: Gabriel
Called Gabe.
Q10: What does Jonas do at the end?
Answer: Flees the community with Gabriel
Into the unknown.

Memories in a World of Sameness

Lois Lowry's The Giver, published in 1993, won the Newbery Medal. It is set in a community built on Sameness, where climate, choices and even colors have been removed to avoid pain and conflict.

At the Ceremony of Twelve, children receive their adult assignments. Jonas is chosen as the Receiver of Memory and begins training with the old Giver, who transmits memories of the past through his hands. Jonas first sees the color red in an apple.

Jonas learns that release, presented as a gentle departure, truly means death. To save baby Gabriel, he flees the community into the unknown, choosing feeling and freedom over comfort. Readers still debate what he finds beyond the community.

What This Quiz Teaches

Book fans will enjoy these questions.

Who wrote the novel
What the community values
What Jonas becomes
What he learns
How it ends

Did You Know?

The book has several companion novels.
Family units are assigned.
Precise language is required.
A 2014 film adapted it.
The ending is famously open.