The Outsiders
Which greasers work at the DX Gas Station?
Who are Soda & Steve?
What state is Ms. McKay from?
Where is New York?
Define the word rapacious.
What is to be aggressively greedy or gluttonous?
What are the 3 types of verbs?
What are linking, helping, and action?
Name the characters from "The Drawbridge Dilemma".
Who are... the Baron, the Baroness, the madman, the boatman, the friend, & the boyfriend (of the Baroness).
What are two things is Two-Bit known for? Personality and/or item
- stealing anything that isn't nailed down
- always telling jokes
What job did Mrs. Shaughnessy have before becoming a math teacher?
What is an engineer?
Name and define the three types of irony.
What are...
- dramatic irony: when the audience knows something the character's don't
- situational irony: when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected
- verbal irony: when the character says the opposite of what is meant
Name 5 pronouns.
(Teacher discretion)
What are the names that Billy reads in the guest book at the Bed & Breakfast he stays in?
Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?
What are... any two of the following... (or teacher discretion)
- stay out of sight
- buy a weeks worth of food
- Go to Jay Mountain to the abandoned church
What town did Ms. Giguere used to teach in?
Where is Newton, MA?
Describe the difference between the woman's tone and the overall mood in the following passage found on the last page of "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl.
"Temple," Billy said, "Gregory Temple. Excuse my asking, but haven't there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?"
Holding her teacup high in one hand, inclining her head slightly to the left, she looked up at him out of the corners of her eyes and gave him another gentle little smile.
"No, my dear," she said. "Only you."
What is...the landlady's tone is calm and relaxed while the mood is tense, ominous, and uncomfortable (or other based on teacher discretion) because it reveals to the reader that the landlady's Bed & Breakfast (creepily) has only had two guests in the last 2-3 years, both who Billy seems to (kinda) remember headlines about them going missing.
Label each parts of speech in the sentence (including types of verbs!):
My neighbor was mowing his lawn loudly.
My: pronoun
neighbor: noun
was: helping verb
mowing: action
his: pronoun
lawn: noun
loudly: adverb (modifies mowing)
Name and explain the type of irony present in "I Confess..."
What is situational irony because you wouldn't expect the teacher to break the rules (who scolded a student for the carvings that he himself carved).
Name the title and author of poem Ponyboy recites for Johnny while in the church on the run for murder.
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
What are Ms. Wentworth's dog's names?
Who are Dolly & Buster?
Explain the literary technique used in the following example from chaper 8 in The Outsiders. *Don't just name the technique, you also need to explain!
Ponyboy is on his way home from the hospital with Two-Bit after visiting Dally & Johnny, Pony thinks to himself, "I was silent most of the way home. I was thinking about the rumble. I had a sick feeling in my stomach and it wasn't from being ill. It was the same kind of helplessness I'd felt that night Darry yelled at me for going to sleep in the lot. I had the same deathly fear that something was going to happen that none of us could stop" (127).
What is foreshadowing?
Ponyboy foreshadows the deaths of both Johnny and Dally with the line, "I had the same deathly fear that something was going to happen that none of us could stop" (127). Later, both Johnny and Dally die in ways that are out of Ponyboy's (or anyone's) control - yes, including Dally's.
What is the name of the treaty signed at the end of WWI and what are 2 direct impacts it made Germany agree to?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Impact: name two if the following...
- forced Germany to give back the land acquired during WWI,
- pay back lots of money to the countries it destroyed
-reduce/eliminate their army
Describe and explain Mabel's vs. Judson's argument and plan in "Ruthless".
- Mabel does not think the punishment for a thief should be murder so her plan is to tell the neighbors (Alec's wife) in order to inform someone of Judson's plan.
- Judson believes he can implement and carry out his own form of justice for any wrong doing against him so his plan is to poison the thief by putting a deadly poison into the drink that the thief "stole".
Finish the notable line from The Outsiders...
Towards the end of chapter 3, before Cherry gets into the car with Bob, she says to Ponyboy, "'We couldn't let our parents see us with you all. You're a nice boy and everything...'"
Ponyboy responds, 'It's ok,' I said, wishing I was dead and buried somewhere. Or at least that I had on a decent shirt. 'We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that...'"
What is... "'...some of us watch the sunset too'" (46)?
Answers may be accepted based on teachers discretion and mention of sunsets and close/very similar language.
What is Ms. McKay's real last name?
What is Henderson?
Describe Ponyboy's tone when he says the following quote in chapter 12 from The Outsiders: "'You're the guy that killed Bob Sheldon,' one of them said. 'And he was a friend of ours. We don't like nobody killing our friends, especially greasers.'
Big deal. I busted the end off my bottle and held on to the neck and tossed away my cigarette 'You get back into your car or you'll get split.'"
Teacher discretion
Germany: Adolf Hitler
Italy: Benito Mussolini
Japan: Emperor Hirohito
In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" what is the name of the historian that Ichabod continuously tries to credit for his own belief and understanding of magic/witchcraft.
Who is Cotton Mather?