Characters
Plot
Conflicts
Settings
Literary Elements
100
The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers.
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
100
What book do Ponyboy and Johnny read aloud to each other while hiding out at the church?
What is Gone With the Wind?
100
Who is the major conflict between in The Outsiders?
What is between the Greasers and Socs?
100
Which town do Johnny and Ponyboy hide out in when they run off?
What is Windrixville?
100
A struggle that takes place within the mind or heart of a character
What is an internal conflict?
200
Ponyboy’s happy-go-lucky, handsome brother.
Who is Sodapop Curtis?
200
How does Dally die?
What is he was shot by the police?
200
Who gets angry with Two-Bit, Ponyboy, and Johnny for walking Marcia and Cherry from the drive-in?
Who is Randy and Bob?
200
Where does the fire take place and where is this building?
What is the church on Jay Mountain?
200
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
300
The joker of Ponyboy’s group.
Who is Two-Bit Matthews?
300
What are the rules of being a greaser?
What are: 1) Don't get caught 2) Stick together
300
Who fights the most in the Curtis house?
Who is Ponyboy and Darry?
300
In which state does the story take place?
What is Oklahoma?
300
A character who undergoes an important inner change like a change in personality or attitude
What is a dynamic character?
400
The teacher who accompanies Ponyboy to the hospital after Ponyboy saves the children from the fire.
Who is Jerry Wood?
400
Which characters die in The Outsiders?
Who are Bob, Johnny, and Dally?
400
Who encourages Johnny and Ponyboy NOT to turn themselves in?
Who is Dally?
400
Where are the boys when Johnny tells Ponyboy to "Stay gold?"
What is the hospital?
400
The way an author expresses his attitude through his writing.
What is tone?
500
The husky blond Soc who steps forward to challenge Darry when the rumble begins.
Who is Paul Holden?
500
Who wrote the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" that Ponyboy recites in the novel?
Who is Robert Frost?
500
Besides Cherry, who stands up to Dally?
Who is Johnny?
500
Where is Ponyboy when the story begins?
What is the movie theater?
500
A figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds.
What is allusion?
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