Chapters 1-4
Ponyboy is just leaving this place at the start of the book.
What is the movies?
This is where Johnny and Ponyboy go to hide after running away.
What is an abandoned church (Windrixville)?
This item is what Dally has that gets him killed.
What is an unloaded gun?
This is why Sandy was sent to Florida to live with her grandparents.
What is she was pregnant?
This is the narrator of the novel.
Who is Ponyboy?
This event left Johnny traumatized.
What is a beating from the Socs OR being abused by his parents?
This character becomes a "spy" for the Greasers.
Who is Cherry?
These were Johnny's last words to Ponyboy.
What is "Stay gold?"
This could happen if Soda and/or Ponyboy get into trouble.
What is they could be sent to a boy's/foster home?
This character's girlfriend moved to Florida.
Who is Sodapop?
This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy at the drive-in about the Socs.
What is they also have problems?
Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally become heroes for doing this.
What is saving children from the burning church in Windrixville?
This is what Ponyboy's English teacher tells him to do to bring up his grade.
What is to write a theme (composition, essay)?
This is the "problem" between the Socs and the Greasers.
What is social conflict - money, material goods, social status, opportunities, etc.)?
These characters were killed 8 months before the novel begins.
Who are Darry's, Soda's, and Ponyboy's parents?
This was the name of Sodapop's horse?
What is Mickey Mouse?
After Ponyboy gets out of the hospital, Randy admits this to Ponyboy.
What is he is not fighting anymore?
This happens at the hearing for Bob's death.
What is Ponyboy is acquitted and free to go home?
This led to the death of Dally.
What is the death of Johnny?
This English teacher assigned Ponyboy to write a theme in order to pass his class.
Who is Mr. Syme?
Of the following, Dally does NOT give this to Ponyboy and Johnny before they run away: money, a car ride, a gun, clothes.
What is a car ride?
After Bob's death, this has come to pass between the Greasers and the Socs.
A. a mutual treaty to stop the fighting
B. a brotherhood where the gangs unite
C. a rising amount of tension
What is C. a rising amount of tension?
This is one of the reasons why Sodapop is especially upset.
What is he is tired of Darry and Ponyboy constantly fighting and feeling like he's being pulled in the middle OR he received the letter back - unopened - that he wrote to Sandy?
This is why Bob, Randy, and the other Socs confronted Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit after the movie.
What is Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit were walking Cherry and Marcia (Bob and Randy's girlfriends) home?
This is the character Darry fought in the rumble against the Socs.
Who is Paul (Holden)?