Chapter 1
The name of the gang that The Outsiders is based on?
Who are the Greasers?
Who is the fuzz? (pg. 20)
The police
Dally, Sodapop, and Ponyboy's parents died this amount of time ago.
What is eight months?
Ponyboy says "they were reeling pickled" (pg. 54). What does this mean?
The Socs were drunk.
Johnny and Ponyboy hide out in this kind of building.
What is an abandoned church?
The narrator of The Outisders
Who is Ponyboy?
Who are Cherry and Marcia?
Soc girls who become friends with Ponyboy and Johnny (and maybe a little bit Dally)
Ponyboy foreshadows that worse things are to come with this line...
What is "I thought things couldn't get any worse. I was wrong."
One Soc that was jumping Ponyboy and Johnny scared Johnny worse than anyone else.
Who is Bob?
Johnny suggests that they change this portion of their looks.
What are their haircuts and Ponyboy's hair color?
Why is the gang so important to Johnny.
What is... Johnny does not have a family that loves and cares for him.
The car that Marcia and Cherry's boyfriends drive by in.
What is a Mustang?
What were Ponyboy and Johnny doing that made Ponyboy miss his curfew?
Sleeping in the vacant lot.
What feeling did Ponyboy have when he got to the church?
What is Premonition?
Ponyboy realizes that he doesn't like Dally for this reason.
Dally is too real, real to the point that it scares Ponyboy.
Why does Ponyboy believe that Darry Doesn't love him?
Darry is in charge of raising his two brothers. Darry is very strict with Ponyboy because he is young.
Johnny showed that he is more than a weak little puppy in chapter two, how?
Johnny stood up to Dally when he was making Marcia and Cherry uncomfortable.
What does Darry say he would have done if Ponyboy hadn't gotten home within "the next hour?"
Darry says that he would have had to call the police to look for him.
What train does Dally tell Ponyboy and Johnny to get on?
Three-fifteen freight to Windrixville (pg. 61)
Ponyboy cries a lot in this chapter, why?
Ponyboy cries a lot because he has to change a part of his identity: his hair.
Ponyboy cries a lot in this chapter because his situation is beginning to feel more real.
On page 18 Ponyboy says "I lie to myself all the time" What does he mean by this?
Ponyboy lies to himself to reassure, convince, or comfort himself.
How did Dally scare Johnny? Why did it scare Johnny so badly?
Dally snuck up behind Johnny and Ponyboy pretending to be a Soc. Johnny has PTSD from when he was jumped by the Socs.
Johnny explains that he likes it better when his father is hitting him, why?
Johnny says that he prefers when his father his hitting him because at least he knows who he is.
What does the park look like?
Two blocks squared with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for little kids.
What does Sodapop write that he wishes Johnny and Ponyboy would do.
Come home and turn themselves in.