Cause & Effect
Because Pony & Johnny eat so much of this while hiding out at the church, they quickly grow tired of it.
What is bologna?
This character writes a letter to Ponyboy while he is at the abandoned church.
Who is Soda or Sodapop?
This is the town where Johnny & Pony go to hide out after Bob is killed and this is how they get there.
Where is Windrixville and what is by train?
This character only knows what it means to feel loved because of the greasers and is everyone's kid brother.
Who is Johnny?
Because of this, Johnny & Pony are considered heroes.
What is saving the kids from the fire.
The effect of this action is that Darry hit Ponyboy.
What is Ponyboy came in after his curfew?
This character is the narrator of the novel.
Who is Ponyboy or Pony?
This is where Johnny tells Dally & Pony he is going to go back and turn himself in.
Where is Dairy Queen?
This character is Cherry's boyfriend.
Who is Bob?
How long are Johnny & Pony in Windrixville after the murder?
What is five (5) days?
The effect of this is that Marcia & Cherry were alone at the drive-in.
What is their boyfriends had booze or were getting boozed up at the drive in?
This character tells the fuzz that Johnny & Pony went to Texas to hide out after the murder.
Who is Dallas or Dally?
This is the decade in which The Outsiders takes place.
What are the 1960's?
Pony realizes this character loves him when he sees him at the hospital after being away for five days.
Who is Darry?
This is how Pony & Johnny disguise themselves after the murder.
What is Pony cuts his hair & bleaches it, and Johnny cuts his hair and washes the grease out of it.
Because of this event, the Curtis brothers are on their own.
BONUS: Tell how long the Curtis brother have been on their own for double the points.
What is they are alone because their parents died in a car accident?
BONUS: What is eight months ago?
This character hates fights and violence, and acts as a spy for the Greasers.
Who is Cherry Valance?
This is where Ponyboy and Johnny started reading Gone With the Wind.
Where is the abandoned church on Jay Mountain?
This item is what the judge takes away from the greasers if they get caught and why.
What is their hair because its' all they have and is what makes them greasers?
This is happening when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally return from Dairy Queen.
What is the church is on fire?
These are three ways Ponyboy is different than the other greasers.
What is being in advanced or Soc classes?
What is liking books?
What is that he enjoys loning it at the movies?
What is watching sunsets?
This character remains calm, cool & collected after Bob's murder, while this character freaks out, vomits & is in shock.
Who is Johnny (calm) and Pony (freaking out)?
These are the three things that Johnny & Pony decide they need after Johnny kills Bob, this is where they go to get them, and this is who gives them the items.
What are money, a gun, and a plan which they go to Buck Merril's house to get the items from Dally?
Ponyboy reminds Cherry that the sunset can be seen from the east side and the west side for this reason.
What is to show that greasers and Socs really aren't that different and the two of them can appreciate the beauty around them no matter which side of town they're on?
This is an example of foreshadowing in The Outsiders along with the event it predicts.
NOTE: There are multiple answers that will be accepted as correct.
What is...
1. In the flashback to Johnny being jumped, Pony says that Johnny now carries a six-inch switchblade and "will kill the next person" who jumps him (Hinton ___). Johnny kills Bob when the Socs jump them in the park.
2. Pony says, "We were careful with our cigarette - if that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it" (Hinton 79). The church catches fire in the next chapter.
3. At the end of chapter three after Darry hits Pony, Pony thinks, "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get any worse. I was wrong" (Hinton ___). Johnny stabs Bob just after this to save Pony's life.