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Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What “had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas”? (pg. 33)
What rule does the text describe as “easy to break”? (pg. 34)
What two friends did Jonas meet up with for “volunteer hours” and where did they volunteer? (pg. 35-36)
What rumor was “whispered among the children”? (pg. 36)
What “always throws the schedule off a little” at the place where Jonas was volunteering? (pg. 36)
What job did Jonas and his friends perform while volunteering? (pg. 37-38)
What “rule” did not apply to “newchildren or the Old”? (pg. 38-39)
What did Larissa say when Jonas asked, “what happens when they make the actual release? Where exactly did Roberto go?” (pg. 41)
What Joke did Jonas make at the end of his talk with Larissa? (pg. 42)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
What seems to be a reasonable predictor of the kind of jobs children will be assigned to at the Ceremony of the Twelve? (pg. 34)
The text says, “Jonas was glad that he had, over the years, chosen to do his hours in a variety of places so that he could experience the differences.” (pg. 37) Why might this statement be important to the story?
Compare Larissa’s evaluation of the life of Edna versus Roberto (pg.40-41). What does she seem to think makes a life “meaningful” and what does not?
Why does no one know, or seem to care that much, what happens when people are released? (pg. 41)
Why might “they” not let children come to the releasing celebrations? (pg. 41-42)
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Larissa infers, despite her quip that “all lives are meaningful”, that Edna’s life was not very meaningful. (pg. 40) What do you think makes life meaningful? Are some lives more meaningful than others? Why or why not?
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
The Bible has some clear and strong teaching about not seeing the nakedness of others. Consider Genesis 9:18-29 and Leviticus 18:6-18 among other passages. But the Scriptures also contain teaching like Genesis 2:24-25; Matthew 25:31-46; and Luke 10:25-37. What general principles about seeing the nakedness of others might we draw from a harmonization of the ideas in these texts? How might those principles apply to various situations, responsibilities, and relationships we have in this life?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Freedom, Purpose/Meaning, Ignorance