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Because Pony & Johnny ate so much of this, they quickly grew tired of it while at the abandoned church.
What is baloney?
100
This character wrote a letter to Ponyboy while he was at the abandoned church.
Who is Soda or Sodapop?
100
This is the setting & the town where they are going when Johnny & Pony are escaping Tulsa in the middle of the night.
What is the train & Windrixville?
100
This is how long Darry has been "the man of the house."
What is 8 months?
100
Because of this, Johnny & Pony are considered heroes.
What is saving the kids from the fire?
200
The effect of this action is that Darry hit Ponyboy.
What is because Ponyboy came in after his curfew?
200
This character was bitten while rescuing a child from the church fire.
Who is Ponyboy or Pony?
200
This is where Johnny tells Dally & Pony he is going to go back and turn himself in.
What is the Dairy Queen?
200
This is the character Cherry fears she could fall in love with.
Who is Dally?
200
This is how long Johnny & Pony were in Windrixville after the murder.
What is five (5) days?
300
The effect of this is that Marcia & Cherry were alone at the drive-in.
What is because their boyfriends had booze or were getting boozed up at the drive in?
300
This character told the fuzz that Johnny & Pony went to Texas to hide out after the murder.
Who is Dallas or Dally?
300
This is where Marcia & Cherry first appeared in the book.
What is the drive in?
300
Pony realizes this character loves him when he sees him at the hospital after being away for five days.
Who is Darry?
300
This is how Pony & Johnny disguise themselves after the murder.
What is Pony cuts his hair & bleaches it, and Johnny cuts his hair and washes the grease out of it?
400
Because of this event, the Curtis brothers are on their own.
What is their parents' death in a car accident?
400
This character hates fights and violence.
Who is Chery Valance?
400
This is where Pony first wondered what it would be like inside a burning ember, and this is where he figured out what it was like inside a burning ember.
What is he first wondered at the vacant lot, then figured it out inside the abandoned church during the fire.
400
Johnny remembered Ponyboy had always wanted to read this book, so he brought it to him to read them while in hiding.
What is Gone With the Wind.
400
This is what is happening and what is the type of conflict that Pony & Johnny encounter when they return from Dairy Queen.
What is the church fire and character vs nature conflict?
500
Pony's being book smart leads to this placement.
What is being in advanced or Soc classes in school?
500
This character remains calm, cool & collected after Bob's murder, while this character freaks out, vomits & is in shock.
Who is Johnny (calm) and Pony (freaking out)?
500
These are the three things Pony & Johnny decide they need after the murder, and this is the place they go to get them.
What are money, a gun, and a plan, which they go to Buck Merill's house to get?
500
Johnny did this to save his friend's life.
What is stabbed Bob?
500
This is an example of foreshadowing we have seen in The Outsiders, along with the event it predicts.
What is the burning ember comment predicting the fire? What is the statement that Johnny & Pony were careful with their cigarettes because if that old church ever caught fire, it would burn down.