Foreshadowing gives clues to the reader to events that will happen later in the story.
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What is the first and last name of the narrator of the story?
Ponyboy Curtis
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Where does the stabbing of Bob take place?
Bob is stabbed near the fountain in the park.
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Define "unfathomable"
impossible to understand
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Ponyboy said that money is what makes Socs and Greasers different. Cherry Valance disagreed. What did she say made them different?
She said it was feelings. Greasers were more sensitve than Socs and Socs can never show their feelings.
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The first sentence of the novel is the same as the last sentence of the novel. What does that tell us about the entire novel?
The entire novel is a flashback.
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Explain two ways Johnny and Dally will be remembered differently.
Correct.
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What does Dally tell Ponyboy and Johnny to do after Johnny stabs Bob?
Hop a train to Windrixville to hide out at an old, abandoned church.
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What word means anxious or fearful about the future?
apprehensive
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What are Johnny's dying words to Ponyboy?
Stay Gold.
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Give one example of foreshadowing from the novel.
p. 52...others...Correct
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What were Ponyboy and Johnny given to take with them on their escape?
gun, money, jacket, ...
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Johnny and Ponyboy were going to turn themselves in, despite Dally's orders not to. What happened so that this no longer became necessary?
The church in Windrixville burned down, so their identities were revealed when they were taken tot he hospital.
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Which character can best be described as gallant?
Johnny Cade
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What does Robert Frost try to teach us in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?
That things are innocent, fresh, new, beautiful at first, but that nothing can stay that way forever. Everything must change.
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What does "flinch" mean?
wincing; recoiling
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Why were the Curtis brothers living on their own?
parents died in car accident
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Dally says, "It ain't a ________________________ without me!" What word/event goes in this blank?
rumble
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What is a word that means showing a feeling of dislike?
contemptuous
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What does Johnny mean when he tells Ponyboy to "Stay Gold"? (Hint: He explains in the letter at the end of the story.)
page 178
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Explain the flashback within the story that happens in chapter two. What is its significance and what do we learn from that flashback?
The flashback explains what motive Johnny has for stabbing Bob. If we didn't know about this event, Johnny's reasons for stabbing Bob would seem different.
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Explain how Ponyboy and Cherry realized that they had something in common. (Hint: It's something that is visible to all.)
They both see the same sunset, Cherry from the West side and Ponyboy from the East side. This is when they realize that Socs and Greasers have more in common than they realize.
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Place the following events in chronological order: - Johnny and Ponyboy meet the Soc girls at the movies. -Johnny is jumped by some Socs who beat him almost to death. -Bob is stabbed in the park. -Ponyboy writes his theme paper for his English teacher. -Ponyboy is jumped on his way home from the movies.
-Johnny is jumped by some Socs who beat him almost to death. -Ponyboy is jumped on his way home from the movies. -Johnny and Ponyboy meet the Soc girls at the movies. -Bob is stabbed in the park. -Ponyboy writes his theme paper for his English teacher.
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Define aloofness
disinterest, indifference, distant in feeling
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How does the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost relate to the theme of The Outsiders?