Characters
The real name of the person Johnny stabbed.
Who is Robert Sheldon?
The thing that burns down. Johnny runs inside to save the children stuck inside.
What is the church?
The item that Johnny gave to the nurse at the hospital.
What is a copy of Gone to the Wind?
The real name for what the characters call the fuzz.
What is the Police?
"Stay gold Ponyboy."
Who is Johnny?
The third person to die in the book. (S)he died by getting shot by a police officer.
Who is Dally?
The city where the book is set.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
The thing Ponyboy uses to defend himself when the Socs start accusing him of killing Bob.
What is a broken bottle?
The real name for what the characters call a cancer stick.
What is a cigarette?
"Can you see the sunset real good from the west side? You can see it good from the east side, too."
Who is Ponyboy?
Who is Johnny's mother?
The name of the drive in movie theater that the characters go to.
What is the Nightly Double?
The car the Socs drive around in.
What is a Ford Mustang or a Chevrolet Corvair?
The real name for what the characters call a heater.
What is a handgun?
"I'll bet you think the Socs have it made. The rich kids, the West-side Socs. I'll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a surprise. We have troubles you've never even heard of. You want to know something? Things are rough all over."
Who is Cherry?
Ponyboy's full name. (First, middle, and last)
Who is Ponyboy Michael Curtis?
The place where the Greasers and Socs had their rumble.
What is a vacant parking lot?
The name of the shirt that the Socs commonly wear.
What is madras?
The real name for what the characters call lifting.
What is stealing?
"I used to talk about killing myself all the time, man. But I don't wanna die now. It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't gonna be long enough."
The FULL NAME of the person who came to visit Ponyboy to see how he was doing after being hit in the head.
Who is Randy Adderson?
The name of the town where Ponyboy and Johnny went to hide from the Socs after Johnny killed Bob.
What is Windrixville?
The item that Two-Bit loses when the police confiscate it from Dally's dead body.
What is a switchblade?
The real name for what the characters call the cooler.
What is jail?
"Johnny, I ain't mad at you. I just don't want you to get hurt. You don't know what a few months in jail can do to you. Oh, blast it, Johnny...you get hardened in jail. I don't want that to happen to you."
Who is Dally?