Character Relationships
The Rumble
Poor Johnny
The Novel
Novel Elements
100
These two characters often bicker and fight despite being brothers.
Who are Ponyboy and Darry?
100
The Rumble takes place here.
What is the vacant lot?
100
The only time Ponyboy had seen Johnny without a deflated, suspicious look in his eyes.
What is during the fire in the church?
100
The author of the book was this old when she wrote the novel.
What is 16.
100
The Climax of the novel.
What is The Rumble/when Johnny dies.
200
These two characters share a strong bond within the Greaser gang. They are the youngest and second-youngest of the Greasers.
Who are Ponyboy and Johnny Cade?
200
These are the two other groups who team up with the Greaser boys to fight the Socs.
What are the Tim Shepard gang and the Brumly Boys?
200
This is what Johnny tells Dally and Ponyboy when they come to the hospital and say they've won the Rumble.
What is "Fighting is useless"?
200
The book was made into a movie in 1983. What made the director of the movie agree to make the film?
A group of students who wrote a letter and signed a petition.
200
The main conflict of the novel.
What is when Johnny kills Bob/Soc-Greaser rivalry.
300
These two characters both agree that even after the rumble, Socs will still be Socs and Greasers will still be Greasers.
Who are Ponyboy and Randy?
300
He shows up at the last minute to help the Greasers in the rumble.
Who is Dally?
300
This is what Johnny tells Ponyboy before he dies. What did he mean by it?
What is "Stay gold". He meant to stay young, innocent, pure.
300
This is the genre of literature that S.E. Hinton is credited with starting.
What is young adult fiction.
300
A major theme throughout the novel.
Various Answers
400
These two characters share a special bond in the novel. The narrator even says one of them was the only person the other ever loved.
Who are Johnny and Dally?
400
Soc who used to play football with Darry and buddy around together in high school.
Who is Paul Holden?
400
Johnny writes a letter to Ponyboy and slips it in "Gone With the Wind". What was the message of the letter?
Tell Dally to look at a sunset and that there is still good in the world. Also, to stay gold (new, young, pure, innocent).
400
This is the state where the novel takes place.
What is Oklahoma.
400
The falling action of the novel.
When Ponyboy is in court, writing his theme, reading the letter from Johnny.
500
These two characters can talk to each other about anything. One of them finds the other to be the most understanding, happy-go-lucky guys around.
Who are Soda and Ponyboy?
500
When Ponyboy surveys the Greasers (Darry, Sodapop, Steve, Two-Bit), these are the reasons they give for fighting.
What are pride, fun, anger, conformity?
500
Why does Dally take Johnny's death so bad?
Because he is the only one he ever really loved.
500
This is where the author was inspired to write the novel.
What is her high school.
500
Protagonists of the novel? Antagonists of the novel?
What are the Greasers (Ponyboy and Johnny)? What are the Socs?
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