The Outsiders

Vocabulary

100

fuzz

police

200

weed

cigarette

300

tuff

cool, sharp

400

jumped

attacked by a gang

500

dames/broads

a derogatory term for women

Literary Terms

100

Point of View of the novel

1st person

200

Sodapop was "a rope in a tug-a-war"

metaphor

300

Johnny was "like a candle with the flame gone"

simile

400

Which is not a conflict?

A. Socs vs. Greasers               B. Pony vs. Darry          C. Ponyboy vs. Johnny

 C. Ponyboy vs. Johnny

500

• In Chapter 5, Ponyboy quotes Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” What type of figurative language does Frost use in the first line of the poem?

"Nature's first green is gold,"

metaphor

Characters

100

What was the name of the horse that Sodapop loved?

A. Wildfire                            B. Ornery                                C. Mickey Mouse

 C. Mickey Mouse

200

Why did the cops think that Johnny and Ponyboy were hiding out in Texas?

A. They wrote the police a note

B. The cops spent all their time at the donut shop

C. Dally told the cops they were

C. Dally told the cops they were

300

How did Ponyboy end up in the park (just before the Socs jump them)?

A. He ran away from home after Darry hit him

B. He wanted to stay out all night

C. He and Johnny were trying to steal a car

A. He ran away from home after Darry hit him

400

What did Pony mean when he said the socs were "reeling pickled"?

A. eating                    B. watching a movie               C. drunk

C. drunk

500

• The morning after Ponyboy returns home, the newspaper headline reads
• Young Hoodlums Arrested at Abandoned Church
• Juvenile Delinquents Captured
• Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes

• Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes

Events

100

With whom does Ponyboy feel comfortable discussing clouds, sunsets and

               poetry?

A. Johnny, Cherry and Sodapop      

B. TwoBit, Cherry and Darry

C. Johnny, Cherry and Dally

A. Johnny, Cherry and Sodapop      

200

• Whom does Johnny idolize?

Dally

300

• Greasers hate Socs for all of the following reasons except
• A. Socs drive fancy cars       
• B. Socs have plenty of money
• C. Socs try to date greaser girls

Socs try to date greaser girls

400

Why does Ponyboy feel so sad about cutting and bleaching his hair?

A. His girlfriend won't like it

B. He is afraid of scissors

C. His hair is his pride and trademark as a greaser

C. His hair is his pride and trademark as a greaser

500

Why is Johnny so amazed with the book Gone With the Wind?

A. He thinks the southern gentlemen are gallant heroes

B. He likes to read about the Civil War

C. He thinks that reading is something everyone should do

A. He thinks the southern gentlemen are gallant heroes

Potluck

100

The setting of the story takes place primarily in _____________.

A  small farm town          B. suburban area with two sides of town        C. church

  B. suburban area with two sides of town

200

According to Cherry, greasers are

• more ________________ than Socs   

emotional

300

• How do sunsets relate to the novel?
• Sunsets show that there is gold in the world
• Sunsets symbolize the end of the day
• Sunsets symbolize how people aren’t that different

• Sunsets symbolize how people aren’t that different

400

• What is the theme of Robert Frost's poem?'
• A.Seasons change   
• B. Eden was a paradise     
• C. Nothing good can last forever

• C. Nothing good can last forever

500

• What is the allusion in the poem?
• Nature's first green is gold, 

  Her hardest hue to hold. 

  Her early leaf's a flower; 

  But only so an hour. 

  Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

  So Eden sank to grief, 

  So dawn goes down to day. 

  Nothing gold can stay.

  --Robert Frost

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Eden