Symbols
Characters
Events
Words
Other
100
What can be considered a symbol of the greasers?
Long, greasy hair
100
What is the first and last name of the narrator of the story?
Ponyboy Curtis
100
Where does the stabbing of Bob take place?
Bob is stabbed near the fountain in the park.
100
Define "Tuff"
cool, sharp
100
Where does the story take place? (hint: we are never given a name of the city, just its features)
A southwest city with two sides of town.
200
The first sentence of the novel is the same as the last sentence of the novel. What does that tell us about the entire novel?
The entire novel is a flashback/Ponyboy's English paper.
200
Explain two ways Johnny and Dally will be remembered differently.
Correct.
200
What does Dally tell Ponyboy and Johnny to do after Johnny stabs Bob?
Hop a train to Windrixville to hide out at an old, abandoned church.
200
What does the word "allusion" mean?
A reference to a famous person, place, or thing in a work of literature.
200
What are Johnny's dying words to Ponyboy?
Stay Gold.
300
What could be considered symbols of the Socs?
Mustangs, madras shirts, rings
300
Name two similarities about how people will remember Johnny and Dally.
correct.
300
Johnny and Ponyboy were going to turn themselves in, despite Dally's orders not to. What happened so that this no longer became necessary?
The church in Windrixville burned down, so their identities were revealed when they were taken tot he hospital.
300
Identify one allusion that occurs in The Outsiders (hint: there is more than one)
"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Gone with the Wind, etc.
300
What does Robert Frost try to teach us in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?
That things are innocent, fresh, new, beautiful at first, but that nothing can stay that way forever. Everything must change.
400
In The Outsiders, the color blue is mentioned repeatedly, making it a "motif." What things are blue and what does the color represent?
Dally's eyes, Darry's eyes, and the Socs' Mustang are all blue. The color represents things that are viewed as "cold" and/or "mean"
400
Name two characters who changed during the novel and explain how and why they changed.
Johnny and Ponyboy...correct.
400
Dally says, "It ain't a ________________________ without me!" What word/event goes in this blank?
rumble
400
What is a "flashback?"
Jumping back in time during a story to tell another story from the past.
400
What does Johnny mean when he tells Ponyboy to "Stay Gold"? (Hint: He explains in the letter at the end of the story.)
page 178
500
Several times in the story, Ponyboy mentions Darry's icy blue eyes. What is this meant to say about Darry's personality?
Darry is cold, mean, and logical.
500
Explain how Ponyboy and Cherry realized that they had something in common. (Hint: It's something that is visible to all.)
They both see the same sunset, Cherry from the West side and Ponyboy from the East side. This is when they realize that Socs and Greasers have more in common than they realize.
500
Place the following events in chronological order: - Johnny and Ponyboy meet the Soc girls at the movies. -Johnny is jumped by some Socs who beat him almost to death. -Bob is stabbed in the park. -Ponyboy writes his theme paper for his English teacher. -Ponyboy is jumped on his way home from the movies.
-Johnny is jumped by some Socs who beat him almost to death. -Ponyboy is jumped on his way home from the movies. -Johnny and Ponyboy meet the Soc girls at the movies. -Bob is stabbed in the park. -Ponyboy writes his theme paper for his English teacher.
500
When does a flashback occur in The Outsiders?
Ponyboy tells the story of Johnny getting jumped and beaten by the Socs
500
How does the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost relate to the theme of The Outsiders?
Correct
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