Character Matching
Matching Characters 2
Literary Elements
Questions
Questions 2
100

A wise-cracker and expert shoplifter

Tow-Bit

100

spy for greasers

cherry

100

"I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me"

personification 

100

The Outsiders was written from which character's point of view

Pony

100

Which piece of textual evidence explains why Cherry and Marcia were without a car at the drive in theater?

Cherry sounded annoyed. "It's not my idea of a good time to sit in a drive in and watch people get drunk."

200

Attractive, like a Greek God

Soda

200

Randy's girlfriend

Marcia

200

"we were careful with our cigarettes-if  that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it. 

foreshadowing

200

Whom does Johnny idolize and look to as a hero?

Dally

200

Which of the following factored into shaping Johnny's shy, nervous personality?

drunk, belligerent, physically abusive father

300

frightened, abused, pet of gang

JOhnny

300

Soda's girlfriend

Sandy

300

"I was dying for a Pepsi"

Hyperbole

300

The Protagonist is

Ponyboy

300

Which piece of textual evidence supports the idea that Cherry cared about her reputation as a Soc?

"Ponyboy, I mean, if I see you in the hall at school or someplace and don't say hi, well, it's not personal or anything."

400

tough and cold from the streets of NY

Dally

400

Killed in the park by Johnny

Bob

400

"The cinders and embers began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants."

onomatopoeia

400

The Antagonist of the story

The Socs

400

How does Pony get a concussion?

a soc kicked him in the head during the rumble

500

Serious, determined, no college education

Darry

500

Doesn't believe the rumble will solve anything

Randy

500

"the appearance of the poem "Nothing Gold can stay" by  Robert Frost in the Outsiders

Allusion

500

Where does the following quote appear in the novel? "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..."

Both the beginning and the end

500

Cherry tells Pony, "things are rough all over" what did she mean by this?

Everyone has problems