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100

This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home 

Johnny Cade

100

This is the point-of-view used to tell the story (first, second, third)

First person

100

 Two character traits you could use to describe Ponyboy are 

Kind, Loyal, Smart, Sensitive, Brave, Perceptive, Naive

100

This is why Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire

They both wanted to save the children

100

This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park

Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia and their boyfriends (Bob and Randy) were jealous

100

This man was supposedly too big to fit through the window of the church

Jerry Wood

200

This is the name of the mountain where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in Windrixville

Jay Mountain

200

This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing

Despite their social class, the Socs have it rough too


Cherry states "things are rough all over."

200

The biggest cause of Johnny's pain in life 

-feeling unwanted and unloved by parents

or 

-being jumped by the Socs for no reason

200

This is the youngest member of the greasers

Ponyboy

200

This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out

Gone With the Wind

200

True or False: S.E. Hinton was a teenager when she wrote The Outsiders? 

true

300

This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents 

Passed away in a car crash

300

What Cherry and Ponyboy say is the real difference between the Socs and Greasers

Socs don't feel anything, and greasers feel too much

300

These are the names of Ponyboy's brothers

Darry and Sodapop

300

These are the two major groups in conflict in the book

The Socs and the greasers

300

This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant  

a heroic gentleman; Dally

300

This greasers thinks of Ponyboy as a "tagalong"

Steve Randle 

400

This is the protagonist in The Outsiders 

Ponyboy

400

Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are this

"Stay gold, Ponyboy"

400

The author of The Outsiders is this

S.E Hinton

400

This is the name of the town Johnny and Ponyboy run away to 

Windrixville

400

This is where Sodapop works

at the local gas station (The DX)

400

This is the name of Darry's former friend who threw the first punch during the rumble.

Paul Holden

500

At the start of the book, conflict between the Socs and greasers is going on because of this 

Social Class (those with power & money and those without)

Also acceptable: The Socs are jerks. Plain and simple. 

500

Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him later when he's in a fire.

His leather jacket?

500

This is Cherry's last name

Valance

500

This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy 

she moved to Florida to live with her grandparents while she had a baby

500

This is what the boys understand "nothing gold can stay" to mean 

that nothing precious lasts forever - that all good things must come to an end

500

This is the decade when The Outsiders takes place

the 1960s