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Events
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Poetry
100

Ponyboy’s brother who works at a gas station, is handsome, is popular, and understands people’s emotions well. 


Sodapop

100

The name of a soc. He is Cherry's boyfriend. He is killed by Johnny during a fight. 

Bob

100

Johnny and Ponyboy are declared heroes after they ________________ 

Go into the burning church to rescue some schoolchildren

100

Johnny always carries around a six inch ___________ after being mugged four months ago. 

switchblade 

100

My favorite character is Sodapop 

Unlike Dally, he's never been caught by a cop

He's worked at a gas station ever since he lost his pop

He's nice to everyone, has long hair like a mop


This is an example of: __________ 

(End) Rhyme 

200

Ponyboy’s best friend who is a quiet 16 year old. His parents are abusive and neglectful. He kills Bob


Johnny

200

The "fuzz" is a nickname the greasers have for ____________ 

the police

200

Johnny's decision to _____________ shocks Dally 

Go back and confess his crime

200

In order to calm their nerves, the greasers often give each other a _____________

cigarette 

200

“Her hardest hue to hold” 

This is an example of: __________ 

Alliteration (Repeating the same sound "h" at the beginning of the word)

300

A soc cheerleader who attends the same highschool as Ponyboy and becomes his friend at the drive-in movie. She becomes a spy for the greasers after Bob is murdered 


Cherry
300

The main character of the novel, as well as the narrator. A 14-year old who lives with his two older brothers after his parents die in a car crash. He enjoys reading books and does well in school. 


Ponyboy

300

Jerry tells Ponyboy not to ________ anymore because he is too young, this is the first time Ponyboy has heard such a thing

Smoke 

300

Pony hates Johnny's idea to change his _________ because it is part of his identity as a greaser. 

Hair (Johnny wants to cut and bleach it for a disguise) 

300

"So Eden sank to grief" 

This is an example of: ____________

Personification. (Giving Eden - a nonhuman thing - human qualities and characteristics)

400

This greaser is 17. He gives Johnny and Pony a gun and some money when they run away


Dally

400

Ponyboy’s oldest brother. When Ponyboy breaks curfew, he slaps him. However, when visiting Ponyboy in the hospital, this character cries...showing Pony that he has cared for him all along. 


Darry 

400

Johnny kills Bob when Bob (and the other socs) try to ________________

Drown Ponyboy in a cold fountain 

400

These are the two things that show that Bob is  the same soc who beat Johnny up a few months a go: ___________ and __________ 

Drives blue mustang and wears rings 

400

Johnny quotes the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by _________ in chapter 5. 

Robert Frost

500

The name of the school teacher who rides in the ambulance with Ponyboy to the hospital. 

Jerry 

500

This greaser is worried that, if Johnny confesses his crime, he will go to jail. He doesn't want Johnny to get hardened by jail like he himself did. 

Dally 

500

Which characters are only mildly injured by the fire? Which character is most injured? What are their injuries? 

Mildly injured: Ponyboy and Dally (some burns) 

Severely injured: Johnny (might have broken back)

500

This is the title of the book that Pony boy reads aloud to Johnny to pass the time at the abandoned church

Gone with the Wind 

500

This word, from the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" means for something to fade away

Word begins with "S" 

Subside 

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