Characters
Conflicts
Quotes in Context
Setting & Places
Miscellaneous
100
The full name of the novel's narrator (and 'author').
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
100
The reason why Darry hits Ponyboy in chapter 3.
What is because Ponyboy comes in late for his curfew and Darry could not call the police. Also, he yells at Soda for defending Ponyboy.
100
"Things are rough all over."
Who is Cherry, when she and Ponyboy first meet at the drive-in movie?
100
Where Bob died.
Where is the park?
100
This character was badly beaten up by the Socs about this many months before the start of the story.
Who is Johnny Cade, about four months ago?
200
Ponyboy's brothers.
Who are Darryl (Darry) and Sodapop?
200
The reason why Johnny prefers when his dad hits him.
What is because Johnny knows that his father knows who he is?
200
"Greasers will still be greasers and socs will still be socs."
Who is Randy, when he meets Ponyboy before the rumble?
200
The setting of the novel.
Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1960's?
200
Two-bit's most vauled possession and the quality he is known for.
What is a black-handled switchblade and his humor?
300
The full name of the character who rescued Ponyboy and Johnny from the fire at the church.
Who is Dallas (Dally) Winston?
300
What Cherry describes as the difference between greasers and socs?
What is their emotions? The greasers feel too much and the socs don't feel anything.
300
"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold."
Who is Johnny, when he is dying in the hospital?
300
Where Johnny and Ponyboy run away to after killing a soc.
What is an abandoned church in Windrixville?
300
How Ponyboy and Johnny disguise themselves.
What is cutting their "tuff" hair and bleaching Ponyboy's?
400
The character who became a spy for the greasers.
Who is Cherry Valance?
400
Bob's real problem, according to Randy.
What is that his parents spoiled him and never said no, didn't set any limits?
400
"We're all we've got left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything."
Who is Sodapop, when he is pleading with his brothers to get along at the end of the novel?
400
The reason why Johnny doesn't like to go home.
What is because his parents are abusive and always arguing?
400
Two ways the author foreshadows that Johnny will use his switchblade.
What is Johnny's claim that no one will ever beat him up like that agian, and that he would use it if he had to?
500
The character who said he would not be fighting in the rumble. BONUS: His reason.
Who is Randy Anderson? Because it won't change anything; greasers would still be greasers and socs would still be socs.
500
The reason why Ponyboy doesn't feel scared when the socs approach him in chapter 12.
What is because he is numb and doesn't feel anything?
500
"Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore."
Who is Ponyboy, explaining why he decides to write his English theme about what has happened?
500
Where Ponyboy loves to go.
Where is "the country"?
500
The first four lines of the Robert Frost poem, "Nothing gold can stay." Bonus: Recite the whole poem.
What is "Nature's first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold./ Her early leaf's a flower;/ But only so an hour." Bonus: "Then leaf subsides to leaf./ So Eden sank to grief,/ So dawn goes down to day./ Nothing gold can stay."
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