Characters
This Greaser is the narrator of the story.
Answer: Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
Ponyboy and Johnny first talk to Cherry and Marcia at this place.
Answer: What is the drive-in theater?
This Robert Frost poem symbolizes the fleeting nature of youth.
Answer: What is “Nothing Gold Can Stay”?
Finish the quote: “I had only two things on my mind: ------.”
Answer: What is are Paul Newman and a ride home?
The Greaser who works at a gas station and is Ponyboy’s fun-loving brother.
Answer: Who is Sodapop Curtis?
He’s the “pet” of the gang and carries a switchblade for protection.
Answer: Who is Johnny Cade?
The boys hide out here after the incident at the park.
Answer: What is an abandoned church?
This hair type becomes a symbol of Greaser identity and pride.
Answer: What is long, greased hair?
“We’re all we have left. We ought to be able to stick together…” Who says this?
Answer: Who is Darry?
The Greaser who loves cars races.
Answer: Who is Steve Randle?
The oldest Curtis brother who takes care of Ponyboy and Soda.
Answer: Who is Darry Curtis?
Ponyboy and Johnny save children from this disaster.
Answer: What is the church fire?
The two groups represent a divide based on this social factor.
Answer: What is class or socio-economic status?
“Things are rough all over” is said by which character?
Answer: Who is Cherry Valance?
The Greaser known for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade.
Answer: Who is Two-Bit Mathews?
This Soc befriends Ponyboy at the drive-in and later serves as a link between the two groups.
Answer: Who is Cherry Valance?
This event is a large fight between the Greasers and the Socs.
Answer: What is the rumble?
Johnny tells Ponyboy to “stay----” this, meaning innocent and good.
Answer: What is gold?
“Dally didn’t die a hero. He died violent…” Who says this?
Answer: Who is Ponyboy?
The Soc who attacks Ponyboy and Johnny at the park and ends up dead.
Answer: Who is Bob Sheldon?
He’s known as the toughest Greaser with a criminal record from New York.
Answer: Who is Dallas “Dally” Winston?
Ponyboy writes his English theme, which becomes the text of the novel.
Answer: What is The Outsiders?
The boys reading Gone with the Wind shows their interest in this kind of hero.
Answer: What are gallant Southern gentlemen?
This character writes a letter to Ponyboy from the hospital telling him to stay gold.
Answer: Who is Johnny Cade?
The Soc who testifies that Ponyboy acted in self-defense.
Answer: Who is Randy Adderson?