Truesight

Q: What was the name of the community Jacob lived in? A: Harmony

Q: What physical sensation was happening to Jacob before he gained sight? A: Headaches/migranes

Q: What were Jacob’s parents’ jobs/assignments? A: His mother was a musician and his father was a farmer/harvester.

Q: Who was the High Councilor’s daughter and how did Jacob know her? A: Delaney. She was an apprentice/student of Jacob’s mother for music.

Q: What was bothering Delaney and what did she try to do? A: She wanted to see and she tried to run away with the visiting Seers.

Q: What did people in Harmony have to wear in the community? Why? A: A Sounder, because it lets other identify you by a distinct tone that is omitted when you are in proximity of others.

Q: What happened to Jacob at the Gathering he attended with his mother? A: He began to have sight.

Q: How did Jacob discover Delaney’s desire to see? A: Jacob visited her home, entered unannounced and overheard her arguing with her father as he eavesdropped.

Q: What specialization did Jacob hope for? A: Working with music.

Q: What rule did Jacob’s mother break more than once to protect Jacob? A: She lied.

Q: Who did Jacob tell about having sight? A: His best friend, Egan.

Q: What gift did Jacob try to get from the High Councilor for his mother? Why didn’t he get it? A: Delaney’s sounder, but her dad said he buried it with her.

Q: What did the councilors propose for Jacob once they found out he had vision? A: He would get surgery to make him blind again from the “Ghost Box” and they would also erase his memories of the time when he gained vision.

Q: Name one incident that Jacob witnessed when others broke rules/laws in the community. A: 1) His mother’s affair; 2) His dad eating tomatoes as he picked them at work; 3) His neighbor stealing food from the storage facilities

Q: What did Jacob see happen with the harvester in the fields when he was spying? A: The machine hit and ran over a man and knocked him unconscious. Jacob secretly triggered the man’s sounder to indicate an emergency to the other workers. What was the name of Jacobs friend that was a student of his mother? Delany What did Jacob learn at the end of the book? He learned that the high councilor could see.