Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
100

What is Ponyboy doing at the beginning of Chapter 1?

(a) Leaving a movie theater  (b) Reading a book
(c) Kissing a girl                  (d) Sitting in a classroom

(a) Leaving a movie theater

100

Who does Cherry say Ponyboy looks like?

(a) Soda          (b) A horse
(c) His father    (d) Robert Redford

(a) Soda

100

Cherry says the greasers are more ___________ than the Socs.

(a) Generous      (b) Hateful
(c) Emotional     (d) Affluent


(c) Emotional

100

What weapon did Johnny use to kill Bob?

A switchblade

100

Who wrote the poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny?

(a) Ponyboy            (b) Cherry
(c) Robert Frost      (d) Walt Whitman

(c) Robert Frost

200

What point of view is The Outsiders written in?

First person point of view

200

What are the names of the girls Ponyboy and the greasers meet at the drive-in?

(a) Whitney and Barbara     (b) Sherri and Marcia
(c) Sandy and Marcia          (d) Jennifer and Mary


(b) Sherri and Marcia

200

What happens when Pony comes home after his curfew?

Darry slaps Ponyboy

200

Who is in the park with Ponyboy and Johnny? (a) Their parents           (b) Dally
(c) Cherry and Marcia

(d) Bob, Randy, and three more Socs.


(d) Bob, Randy, and three more Socs.

200

Who's the spy for the greasers?

Cherry Valance

300

What celebrity does Ponyboy wish he looked like?

(a) Paul Newman     (b) Rock Hudson
(c) Clark Gable        (d) Gary Cooper


(a) Paul Newman

300

Who says 'things are rough all over'? What is the person referring to?

Cherry Vallance

No matter what your background or socio-economic level, things are difficult for everybody

300

Why does Johnny like it better when his father is hitting him? Cite evidence from Chapter 3.

When Johnny's dad hits him he says at least his father is thinking about him.
300

What are the four things that Dally offered Ponyboy and Johnny after the murder?

a gun, money, a plan, and dry clothes

300

What do Ponyboy and Johnny do in Chapter 5 to disguise themselves? Why is this important? (Think about what is important to a Greaser)

They cut and bleach their hair. It is important because their hair is a very large part of their identity as greasers. There hair labeled them as greasers, it was their trademark.

400

Who is the only person who can tease Darry?

(a) Sandy        (b) His father
(c) Ponyboy.    (d) Soda


(d) Soda

400

Why doesn't Ponyboy like referring to Sodapop as a dropout?

The word dropout made Ponyboy think of a "poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets breaking out street lights". Ponyboy does not think that fits his "happy-go-lucky brother at all." He thinks it fits Dally better.

400

Where do Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit walk to with Cherry and Marcia after they leave the movies?

To Two-Bit's house to get his car so he can drive the girls home.

400

How does Johnny recognize who the Socs in the park are?

By the rings on Bob's hand.

400

Why is Ponyboy sick?

He was tired of baloney and he was smoking too much that it made him sick

500

How do Ponyboy's relationships with Darry and Sodapop differ? Explain with textual evidence from Chapter 1.

Sodapop is more motherly.

Darry is more fatherly.

500

What story is told in Chapter 2?

Ponyboy tells Cherry about the time Johnny was jumped by the Socs

500

Why doesn't Darry call the police when Ponyboy doesn't arrive home until 2:00 a.m.?

If he called the police it might have gotten Ponyboy and Johnny thrown in a boys' home.

500

How do Ponyboy and Johnny get to the abandoned church?

They hop the three-fifteen freight to Windrixville.

500

What are the two pieces of news Dally told the boys?

The police think they went to Texas and Cherry is a spy for the greasers