Who Are These Characters (Qualities and Items Associated with Them)? (21 on Test)

Name:______Test Date: ______(Test = 70 pts.)

Who are these characters (qualities and items associated with them)? (21 on test) o Johnny Cade ______o Ponyboy Curtis ______o Cherry Valence ______o Bob Sheldon ______o Two-Bit Mathews

______o Dally Winston ______o Tim Shepard ______o Steve Randle ______o Sodapop Curtis ______o Paul Holden ______

What do these things have to do with the book? (23 on test)

Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” ______

Gone With the Wind______

Great Expectations______

Nightly Double______

Sting Ray car______Blue Mustang______

Black-handled switch blade______

DX______

Mr. Syme______

Sandy______

Oklahoma______

Jerry Wood & Mrs.

O’Briant______

Broken back/3rd degree burns______

Chocolate cake______

Peroxide______

Quotes: Identify the speaker (10 on test)

Example – “If they win, things go on as usual. If we do, they stay outa our territory” ______

Example - “ “I can’t stand fights... I can’t stand them...” ______

Answer the following:

1. Who initiates the attack on Pony at the beginning of the story? ______2. What are the two rules of a Greaser? a. ______

b. ______

3. How long have the Curtis boys been without parents? ______4. Because of the “Bob” incident, the boys do not have time to wallow in their guilt. What do they spend their time doing? (3) a. ______

b. ______

c. ______

5. Who brings a letter to Pony at the church? ______

a. Who is it from? ______

b. What does it say?

6. How is Ponyboy kept from going back in the church after Johnny?

7. What does Jerry talk to Pony about?

8. What would Dally want reported in the paper that wasn’t mentioned?

9. How does Randy Adderson feel about the upcoming rumble?

10. Who is Robert Sheldon in an old yearbook of Soda’s?

11. Who is Pepsi-Cola? ______

12. What nickname does Darry call Pony? ______

13. Did Pony write his “theme” for others to learn a lesson from or for others to be more understanding of each person’s individuality?

14. Long hair and Pony – why does he keep his long? 15. Who looks like Will Rogers? ______

16. What grade is Pony in school? ______Why?

17. How does Johnny feel about being hit by his father?

18. What’s a JD? ______

19. What would Pony never talk about in front of Darry?

20. Whose rules do the Socs and Greasers follow for the rumble?

21. Who stays with Pony when he is sick? ______

22. What is Pony’ pride? ______

23. Pony is addicted to what? ______

24. Who bites their nails? ______

25. What did Randy say Bob’s problem was? ______

Vocab: (10 on test)

 Delinquents______

 Acquitted______

 Rivalry______

 “Heater” ______

 Liable______

 Hue______ * lit term : Allusion Ex. ______

 * lit term : Personification Ex. ______

 * lit term : Metaphor Ex. ______

 * lit term : Theme Ex. ______

 * lit term : Literal vs Figurative Ex. ______

 * lit term : Alliteration Ex.

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 * lit term : Climax Ex. ______

 * lit term : Exposition Ex. ______

 * lit term : Bildungsroman Ex. ______

MUTT 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.” -Robert Frost