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100
If it weren't for the gang, this person would never know what love is.
Who is Johnny?
100
Pony is jumped in the beginning of the novel because of this.
What is he walks home alone from the movies?
100
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of "Stay gold."
Who is Johnny? He tells Pony to "stay gold," which to him means to stay innocent. He doesn't want Pony to descend into the greaser lifestyle.
100
At the end of the novel the reader realizes that the whole story was Ponyboy's theme for his English class. This is an example of this literary device.
What is a flashback?
100
Ponyboy thinks that the only thing keeping Darry from being a Soc is the gang for these reasons.
What is Darry is smart? He could have gone to college, but now is obligated to take care of his brothers.
200
Ponyboy thinks this person is overly mean to him.
Who is Darry?
200
This occurs immediately after Darry slaps Ponyboy.
What is Ponyboy runs away to the park with Johnny, where they encounter the Socs.
200
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of, “Johnny wasn’t behaving at all like his old self.” (Hint: it happens at the church fire)
Who is Pony? Johnny yells to the kids that he's going to get them out and runs in to save them.
200
Identify the literary device AND ITS FUNCTION in the following sentence: "Darry's eyes glittered like ice" (hint: this happens before the rumble)
What is a simile? It increases the tension between the two sides before the rumble begins.
200
Identify the tone of the following sentence: “Dally cursed under his breath and nearly tore out the transmission of the T-bird as we roared out of the Dairy Queen.”
What is tense?
300
This person helps Pony and Johnny escape.
Who is Dally?
300
At the hospital, when Ponyboy realizes that Darry is crying, this theme is being developed at this point.
What is that family ties are important to our lives?
300
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of "I'm carrying a heater, but it ain’t loaded.”
Who is Dally? He's been carrying around an empty gun to scare away potential attackers since Bob's death.
300
Identify the literary device AND ITS FUNCTION in the following passage: “We lay in the tall weeds and damp grass, breathing heavily. The dawn was coming. It was lighting the sky in the east and a ray of gold touched the hills.”
What is personification? It highlights the gold color on the hills.
300
Describe Ponyboy's state of mind after Dally's death.
What is he is in shock? He is confused and refuses to believe that Johnny has died. He says that he killed Bob.
400
This person's parents should have "belted him at least once," according to Randy.
Who is Bob?
400
Johnny reacts in this way when his mother visits him in the hospital.
What is angry? He is determined not to see her.
400
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of, “Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for.”
Who is Johnny? Ponyboy reads this in the note Johnny left him. It shows that he doesn't regret going into the church to save the kids even though it ultimately caused his death.
400
Identify the literary device AND ITS FUNCTION in this event: Ponyboy recites Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is an allusion? Johnny later connects the poem to youth.
400
The author mainly uses the argument at the drive-in between Cherry and Dallas Winston for this reason.
What is lead to Cherry's friendship with Pony and Johnny.
500
This person instantly shares Two-Bits offbeat sense of humor.
Who is Marcia?
500
Towards the end of the novel, Ponyboy's grade in English drops to a D because of this reason.
What is he is in shock over the tragic events that he has witnessed?
500
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of, “Our front door is always unlocked in case one of the other boys is hacked off at his parents and needs a place to lay over and cool off.”
Who is Pony? This shows us that Darry isn't as mean as Ponyboy makes him out to be.
500
Identify the literary device AND ITS FUNCTION utilized in this sentence: "Two-Bit reached into his back pocket for his prized possession. It was a jet-handled switchblade, ten inches long, that would flash open at a mere breath."
What is hyperbole? It shows how fast the switchblade opens.
500
Describe how Dally "died gallant."
What is he changed his ways and helped people?