Characters
Which character cried when visiting the hospital?
What is Darry Curtis?
Which character said the following quote?
"Nothing gold can stay." (77)
What is Ponyboy Curtis?
How do Ponyboy and Johnny change their appearance?
What is cut their hair and dye Ponyboy's blond?
What type of figurative language is this: "You know how it is, when you wake up in a strange place and wonder where in the world you are, until memory comes rushing over you like a wave."
What is a simile?
Which word means the following - To beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy.
What is implore?
Which character told the police that Johnny and Ponyboy acted in self-defense?
What is Cherry Valance?
Which character said the following quote?
"I don't guess my parents were worried about me or anything?" (87)
What is Johnny Cade?
How did Ponyboy and Johnny get the children out of the church?
What is they dropped them from a window?
What type of figurative language is this: "Maybe Dally had been killed in a car wreck or something and no one would ever know where I was, and I'd just die up here, alone, and turn into a skeleton."
What is a hyperbole?
Which word means the following - in a persistent or tenacious manner?
What is doggedly?
Which character just wanted his parents to tell him no or to be stricter with him?
What is Bob Sheldon?
"Johnny, I ain't mad at you. I just don't want you to get hurt. You don't know what a few months in jail can do to you..." (89)
What is Dallas Winston?
What are Johnny's injuries from the fire?
What is a broken back and third-degree burns?
What type of figurative language is this: "We could see for miles; see the ribbon of highway and the small dots that were houses and cars."
What is a metaphor?
Which means the following - without hope or encouragement?
What is bleak?
Which character's nickname used to be Pepsi-Cola?
What is Sodapop Curtis?
Which character said the following quote?
"Ya'll were heroes from the beginning. You didn't just 'turn' all of a sudden." (107)
What is Two-Bit Mathews
What is Ponyboy worried about that might happen to him and Sodapop?
What is they might get sent to a boys' home?
What type of figurative language is this: "for once his comical grin was gone and his dancing gray eyes were stormy”
What is personification?
Which word means the following - struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror?
What is aghast?
Who rode to the hospital in the ambulance with Ponyboy?
What is Jerry Wood?
Which character said the following quote?
"It doesn't prove a thing. We'll forget it if you win, or if you don't. Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs..." (117)
What is Randy Adderson?
How does Randy Anderson feel about the upcoming rumble between the Greasers and the Socs?
What is he is planning to leave town?
What type of figurative language is this: “I just stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me”
What is a simile?
Which word means the following - to escape the understanding, perception, or appreciation of
What is elude?