Characters
These are Ponyboy's older brothers.
Who are Darry and Soda?
This is where the Greasers first meet Cherry and Marcia in the novel.
What is the drive-in?
This is what Greasers and Socs call a fight.
What is a rumble?
This is a type of car that a Soc would drive.
What is a Mustang or Corvair?
This is the kind of animal Soda used to own and love.
What is a horse?
This character helped Ponyboy and Johnny get away to the church.
Who is Dally Winston?
What happens to Ponyboy on his walk home in the first chapter.
What is getting jumped and then rescued by the Greasers?
This is the term the Greasers use for the police.
What is the fuzz?
This group, in general, does better in school.
Who are the Socs?
This is the name of the book Ponyboy reads in the church.
What is Gone with the Wind?
This is the leader of another Greasers gang.
Who is Tim Shepard?
Why Ponyboy and Johnny run away to the park the night Bob is killed.
What is Ponyboy getting in a fight with Darry, who hits him?
This word means brave, and it describes how Johnny thinks of Dally.
What is gallant?
This gang likes The Beatles best.
Who are the Socs?
This city is where Dally used to live.
Where is New York?
This Soc decides to become a spy for the Greasers.
Who is Cherry Valance?
What Ponyboy and Johnny are doing when Ponyboy thinks about the 'nothing gold can stay' poem.
What is watching the sun rise?
Another way to say, "You understand?" or "You cool?"
What is "savvy" or "you dig"?
This is what Cherry says about the Socs when it comes to displaying emotion.
What is "acting cool to the point of not feeling anything at all"?
This is the age S.E. Hinton was when she wrote The Outsiders.
What is 15?
This is the name of Sodapop's girlfriend.
Who is Sandy?
When at the Dairy Queen, Johnny shares that he's decided to do this.
What is turn himself in?
This word means to have a feeling about what's going to happen in the future.
What is premonition?
This is the side of town where the Greasers are from.
What is the east side?
This is the actor Ponyboy was thinking about in the first line of the book.
Who is Paul Newman?