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The Outsiders
Milkweed
Vocabulary!
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This is the real name of the main character, who is also called "Junior."
Who is Arnold Spirit?
100
This is the dreaded eye disease that kept many immigrants in the early 1900s from entering the U.S. at Ellis Island.
What is trachoma?
100
This the author of "The Outsiders."
Who is S.E. Hinton?
100
These are the five the names that the protagonist has in the novel.
What is "Stopthief," "Misha Pilsudski," "Misha Milgrom," "Jack Milgrom" and "Poppynoodle"?
100
This is the definition of the word "sheepish."
What is "acting embarrassed or ashamed"?
200
This is the name of Junior's best friend from the reservation.
Who is Rowdy?
200
This is the name of the woman who wrote the poem that is inscribed on The Statue of Liberty.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
200
These are the names of the two rival gangs in the novel.
What is "The Greasers" and "The Socs"?
200
This is the country where this novel takes place.
What is Poland?
200
This is the definition of the word "aloof".
What is "emotionally distant or disinterested"?
300
When Junior leaves the reservation to attend high school, this is the name of the all-white high school that he attends.
What is Reardan?
300
This is the literary term for when several words in the same sentence or line of poetry begin with the same letter/sound.
What is alliteration?
300
This is the name of the Soc girl who becomes a "spy" for the Greasers.
Who is Cherry?
300
This is the name of the orphan with only one arm.
Who is Olek?
300
This is the definition of the word "contemplate."
What is " to think deeply or carefully about something"?
400
The name of the poet who wrote "There is another world, but it is in this one," which is the epigraph to 'TATDPTI.'
Who is William Butler Yeats?
400
When we went to Heiffer International, we were taught a hand signal that helped us improve our behavior. What was this hand signal called?
What is the "Listening Llama"?
400
This is the poet who wrote "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Who is Robert Frost?
400
This is the fairytale that upsets Misha later in life.
What is "Hansel and Gretl"?
400
This is a synonym for the word "perseverance."
What is "determination" or "dedication" or "endurance"?
500
This is the name of Junior's girlfriend.
Who is Penelope?
500
This is the repeated phrase in a short story about two boys that featured characters named Boyd, Mrs. Wilson and Johnny.
What is, "After You, My Dear Alphonse"?
500
These are Johnny's dying words.
What is "Stay gold"?
500
This is the last sentence of the novel.
What is "I am Poppynoodle"?
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This is the definition of the word "scintillating."
What is "sparkling or shining brightly; very clever, amusing and interesting"?