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Vocabulary
Characters
Literary Elements
Comprehension
Allusions
100
a bold resistance to authority
What is defiance?
100
Soc spy who helped the Greasers
Who is Cherry?
100
The Socs jump Ponyboy on the way back from the movies and pull a knife on him; the greasers show up and chase the Socs away.
What is the conflict
100
True or false: Johnny carried a switchblade because he did not trust his friends.
What is false. He carried it because he was afraid he would be jumped.
100
Name two popular cars of the 50s and 60s?
What are mustangs, corvairs, Sting Rays, and T-birds? (named two)
200
incapable of serious or meaningful thought
What is scatterbrained?
200
the redhead's movie friend
Who is Marcia?
200
The greasers and the Socs.
Who are the characters?
200
True or False: Johnny told Ponyboy to "stay gold" before he died.
What is true.
200
plaid cotton, front button shirt made in India; popular during the 50s and 60s
What is madras shirt?
300
disinterest; distant in feeling
What is aloofness?
300
killed by the police
Who is Darry?
300
small-town in Oklahoma during the 1960s
What is the setting?
300
True or False: Ponyboy is the third person narrator of the novel?
What is False. Ponyboy is the first person narrator.
300
rock 'n' roll singer, famous during the 50s and still popular today
Who is Elvis Presley?
400
obnoxious or stubborn
What is ornery?
400
one of the boys who tried to drown Ponyboy in the fountain
Who is Bob?
400
The judge finds the defendants innocent and allows the Curtis boys to stay together.
What is the resolution?
400
True or False: Marcia developed a real crush on Darry, even though they were from the opposite sides of the "tracks."
What is False; Marcia developed a crush on Dally.
400
actor, famous from the 50s; died in 2008
Who is Paul Newman?
500
an institution for young offenders
What is reformatory
500
Jokester whose real name was Keith
Who is Two-Bit?
500
After the rumble, Johnny died, affecting Dally the hardest. Dally pulled an empty gun on the police and is killed.
What is the climax?
500
True or False: Johnny accepts his parents' forgiveness before he dies.
What is False.
500
world famous musical group from the 60s-80s and beyond
Who are the Beatles?