CHARACTERS
PLACES
EVENTS
VOCAB
WHO SAID IT?
100

What is the name of the narrator?

Bryon

100

Where do Mark and Bryon live?

With Bryon's mom

100

How did M&M get his nickname?

He loves M&M candies, and also has a package with him

100

What is a synonym for the word, "groovy?"

Cool, neat, fantastic, fabulous

100

Who said it?

"My sister's home...my older sister, Cathy.  You know."

M&M

200

What is the name of Bryon's "brother?"

Mark

200

What is the name of the place where Mark and Bryon like to hang out and play pool?

Charlie's Bar

200

Summarize the story that the boy in the hospital tells Bryon, how was he injured?

The boy (Mike) was driving a black girl home after saving her from a white gang.  When they got to her neighborhood, the girl (Connie) told her friends to "kill him" (Mike).

200

How do they start a car without any keys?  What is the word they use?

They "hotwire" it

200

Who said it?

"Bryon, just go talk to him.  He won't talk much to the nurses.  He's been hurt pretty badly, poor thing."

Bryon's mom

300
Who do Mark and Bryon go to visit at the hospital, in the beginning of the book?

Bryon's mother

300

Where does Bryon meet Cathy and ask her out?

At the hospital cafeteria, where she's working as a waitress

300

After getting beat up at the dance, what is Mark's main injury?

A head wound.  He needed stitches and has a concussion.

300

Who are they referring to when they use the word, "fuzz?" 

Example:  "I get fed up with getting walked over by THE FUZZ?"

Police, cops

300

Who said it?

"I loved to eat.  I could put away more food than anyone I knew."

Bryon

400

What is the name of the character from The Outsiders, who is also in this book (nickname + first name)?

"Ponyboy" Curtis

400

Where does Mark get beat up?

In the parking lot where the dance is being held

400

Why doesn't Bryon like Ponyboy Curtis?

His ex, Angela, left him for Ponyboy

400

Define the word "hub."

Example:  "But Mark was always the HUB of this circle of people."

Center, focus, around which everything revolves

400

Who said it?

"I'd forgotten how beautiful he is...I know girls who would give their eye teeth for hair that color."

Cathy

500

What is the name of the boy Mark and Bryon meet in the hospital?

Mike

500

Where do Mark and Bryon find M&M, at the very beginning of the book?  (It's the first time we're introduced to M&M).

At the "drugstore"

500

Who is Charlie?

He owns a bar, and he lent Bryon his car to take Cathy to the dance

500

What does it mean to be "indifferent?"

Example:  "The kid just looked away, like he was INDIFFERENT.  But he was shook, I could tell."

Not caring, without interest or concern

500

Who said it?

"Bryon!  Come quick!  Mark's hurt!"

Ponyboy Curtis

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