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Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What emotions did Jonas now feel at the end of the ceremony of assignments? (pg. 74)
What did the Chief Elder apologize for? (pg. 75)
What role has Jonas been selected for? (pg. 76)
What physical feature did Jonas notice about the man sitting “in the midst” of the committee of elders? (pg. 76)
What did the Chief Elder say which caused “the discomfort of the audience”? (pg. 76)
What is unique about the training of the “Receiver-in-training”? (pg. 77)
What qualities are necessary for someone to be selected as the next Receiver of Memory? (pg. 78-79)
What great difficulty did the Chief Elder say Jonas would face which “none of us her can comprehend”? (pg. 79)
What quality does Jonas not currently have but which he will gain through his training? (pg. 79)
What happened which gave Jonas “a tiny sliver of sureness for the first time”? (pg. 80)
How did the community show that they accepted Jonas in his new role? (pg. 80-81)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
What is the difference, if any, between being “assigned” a job and being “selected” for a certain role? (pg. 75)
Why might it be important that man in the midst of the elders has “pale eyes”? (pg. 76)
Why might it be that the “Receiver in training” cannot be “observed” or “modified” by the elders? (pg. 77)
The Chief elder mentions “qualities that a receiver must have.” (pg. 78) What logical genus might we give for the list of qualities mentioned?
For what purpose might the qualities, mentioned by the Chief Elder, be used? (pg. 78-79)
Why might Jonas not yet have the final quality? (pg. 79)
What do you think “changed” as Jonas looked out at the crowd? (pg. 80)
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Can wisdom be taught like knowledge? Defend your answer with reason.
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Read Proverbs 4. How does this passage inform us about the nature of wisdom? What is the good of gaining wisdom?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Courage, Integrity, Wisdom, Despair