Answer the Following Questions Using the Novel

Name ______Per ______The Outsiders

Answer the following questions using the novel.

Chapter 1 (p. 1-18)

1. Describe the main character.

2. Name and describe his brothers.

3. Discuss and describe the "the Greasers."

4. What is a "Soc?"

5. What happened to Ponyboy on the way home?

6. Who saved him?

7. Describe Darry.

8. Describe Soda

9. Tell about Steve Randle.

10. Discuss Two-Bit Matthews 11. Tell about Dallas Winston.

12. Discuss Johnny Cade.

13. "Tough" means . . .

14. "Tuff" means . . .

15. To what character in literature did Ponyboy compare himself? Why?

Chapter 2 (p. 19-36)

1. What did Dally do in the drugstore?

2. Why didn't they (Who?) pay to go to the movie?

3. How did Dally embarrass Ponyboy?

4. Describe the girls.

5. What did Cherry do with the Coke?

6. How did Johnny surprise everyone? 7. Why had the girls been sitting alone?

8. Tell what literary device was used to describe Johnny's beating.

9. Tell about the beating itself.

1. What did Ponyboy think separated a "Greaser" from a "Soc?"

2. What did Cherry say it was?

3. How did she define a race ?

4. Who was Mickey Mouse?

5. What did Ponyboy mean when he said, "We saw the same sunset."?

6. What happened while they were walking home?

7. What happened to make Ponyboy painfully aware of the fact that Greasers were different from Socs?

8. What did Cherry say about Dallas? 9. What was Ponyboy's great dream?

10. Why did Ponyboy run away?

1. What happened in the park?

2. How did Bob define a "Greaser?"

3. How did Ponyboy define a Soc?"

4. What tragedy happened?

5. Why?

6. What was the only honest thing Dally did?

7. Who helped the boys?

8. How?

9. Where was their destination? Chapter 5 (p. 68-84)

1. What did Johnny buy? (8)

2. What was his pride, his trademark?

3. How did they "kill time"?

4. What do you think the poem means?

5. Who wrote it?

6. How long did they stay before Dally came?

7. What did Dally represent?

8. What is a cancer stick?

9. Tell about the letter? 10. What did they eat?

11. What is a heater?

12. Who was their spy?

1. How was Cherry going to help them?

2. Tell about Johnny's decision.

3. What really hurt Johnny?

4. Who was the unofficial gang leader?

5. What was the real reason Dally did not want Johnny to turn himself in?

6 What disaster happened?

7. What happened to Johnny?

8. How did Dally get hurt? 9. What really surprised Ponyboy?

Chapter 7 (p. 100-118)

1. What question did the reporter ask Ponyboy?

2. How did he answer?

3. What was Dally's condition?

4. What was Johnny's condition?

5. What was the "rule" at breakfast time?

6. Who were Ponyboy's first visitors?

7. What were the headlines?

8. What might happen to the Curtis family?

9. Tell about Ponyboy's dream?

10. What did Randy tell Ponyboy about Bob? 11. What did Randy tell Ponyboy about himself?

12. Why did Ponyboy say he felt better even though he still had a headache?

Chapter 8 (p. 119-130)

1. What two things did Johnny want?

2. Why did Johnny refuse to allow his mother to visit him?

3. How did Ponyboy compare his mother to Soda?

4. How did Ponyboy compare his mother to Darry?

5. What was wrong with Ponyboy?

6. Tell about Ponyboy's talk with Cherry.

Chapter 9 (p. 131-149)

1. What foolish stunt did Curley and Ponyboy do?

2. How did Two-Bit build-up his courage? 3. For what reasons did the boys fight? Two-Bit ... Soda ... Steve ... Darry

4. What advice did Darry give Soda and Ponyboy?

5. What was the difference between the gangs?

6. How could anyone tell a Greaser from a Soc immediately?

7. Describe the start of the rumble.

8. Tell about the fight.

9. Describe the ride to the hospital.

10. What was Johnny's reaction to the news about the rumble?

11. What were Johnny's last words?

12. What did they mean?

13. What was Dally's reaction to Johnny's death? Chapter 10 (p. 150-160)

1. How did Ponyboy get home?

2. What was Dally's breaking point?

3. Why did Dally raise an unloaded gun?

4. Why did Ponyboy consider both Dally and Johnny s heroes?

5. What caused Ponyboy's collapse?

6. How did Ponyboy rationalize the deaths of his two friends?

7. How long had Ponyboy been delirious?

8. What bothered Ponyboy about talking while he had been delirious?

Chapter 11 (p 161-166)

1. Who was Ponyboy's surprise visitor?

2. What was Randy's attitude about his father? 3. What disturbed Ponyboy the most about going to court?

4. How does Ponyboy confuse fact and fancy?

Chapter 12 (p. 167-180)

1. Who was the hearing?

2. What serious changes were happening to Ponyboy? (physical and emotional)

3. Tell about Ponyboy's situation in school.

4. Described the meeting between Ponyboy and the three Socs.

5. What caused Soda to run away?

6. Why did Ponyboy "play" that Johnny was not dead?

7. Tell about Johnny's letter.

8. What is the importance of the final paragraph?