The Outsiders #1
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100

This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home 

Who is Johnny Cade

100

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

What is first person? 

100

 The genre of The Outsiders is 

realistic fiction

100

This is why Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire

What are they both wanted to save the children
100

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

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

100

Name 2 conflicts that are running through the novel.

Pony's relationship with Darry 

Greasers versus the Socials

200

Who is the protagonist of the story? 

Who is Ponyboy?

200

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

What is the Socs have it rough too? 

Cherry states "things are rough all over."

200

When Pony and Johnny are in the church rescuing the kids, what surprises Ponyboy about Johnny? 

Johnny looks happier than Pony has ever seen him. 

200

This is the youngest member of the greasers

Who is Ponyboy

200

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

What is Gone With the Wind?

200

“Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big.”  

This quote is an example of

           

hyperbole

300

This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents 

What is passed away in a car crash? 

300

And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade.  He’d use it, too, if he ever got jumped again. They had scared him that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body...”        

This quote is an example of...

foreshadowing

300

These are the names of Ponyboy's brothers

What are Darry and Sodapop?

300

These are the two major groups in conflict in the book

What are the Socs and the greasers?

300

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

What is a heroic gentleman; Dally

300

“It [Buck’s shirt] about swallowed me.”

This quote is an example of

personification

400

How did 2-Bit get his switchblade?  

Shoplifted it

400

Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are this

What is "Stay gold, Ponyboy"? 

400

The author of The Outsiders is this

Who is S.E Hinton?

400

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

What is Windrixville?

400

This is where Sodapop works

What is at the local gas station (The DX)?

400

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day,

Nothing gold can stay.


Which is personification? 

So Eden sank to grief

500

S. E. Hinton devotes most of chapter one to

character development

500

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

What is his leather jacket?

500

This is Cherry's last name

What is Valance?

500

This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy 

What is 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 

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

500

All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds.  The sky was lighter in the east, and the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything  held its breath, and then the sun rose.”  


Imagery