OBJECTIVE A: Be Able to Answer These in a TRUE Or FALSE Statement

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OBJECTIVE A: Be able to answer these in a TRUE or FALSE statement.

1. Who does Ponyboy find it easier to talk to out of his brothers? Sodapop

2. Which characters go to the same high school? The Socs and the greasers

3. Who is most likely to start a fight—greasers or Socs? Soc

4. Why did Darry turn down a college scholarship? To work so that he could keep the family together

5. Was Ponyboy alert when Johnny stabbed Bob? No, he had passed out while being drowned by the Soc

6. About how long to do Ponyboy and Johnny hide in the church? 5 days

7. Did the cigarettes start the fire? Who thinks this? Johnny thinks so

8. Why does Randy not want to fight in the rumble? It won’t change anything

9. Who does Dally care about out of the greaser gang members? Johnny

10. When Ponyboy and Cherry are discussing the differences between Socs and greasers at the movies, what does Ponyboy decide about the difference between the groups’ feelings? The greasers are emotional; the Socs are cool and unfeeling

11. Could Darry have been a Soc? Why or why not? Yes, but the gang keep him from being a Soc

12. Who helped Johnny and Ponyboy after the killing? Dally

13. How was Johnny injured? Rescuing kids from burning churc

OBJECTIVE B: Be able to finish the following statements.

14. Dally was bitter and hard because… his life had been a fight for self-preservation

15. Bob was unhappy and wild because … his parents never loved him enough to give discipline

16. Ponyboy left home because… he thought his brother hated him

19. Darry was becoming old before his time because … he had too much responsibility

20. Soda became moody and depressed because … his girlfriend was unfaithful

OBJECTIVE C: Find the best answer for the following questions.

17. What are five words that describe Ponyboy? polite, soft-spoken, sensitive

18. Who said this:: “I used to talk about killing myself . . . I don’t want to die now. It ain’t long enough.” Johnny

19. What does Ponyboy do that proves to Two-Bit that he will not get tough? He picks up glass to save someone from a flat tire

20. Know what all happens at the church during the time that Ponyboy and Johnny are there. Little kids come to the church to play and the church catches fire.

21. On what occasion do Ponyboy and Johnny almost die? They rescued the children from the burning church.

22. Why Johnny didn’t want to see his mother when he was in the hospital? He was usually ignored at home.

23. True or False: Dally slapped Ponyboy because he hated him. If false, make it a true statement. Pony came home so late.

24. Why did Randy believe that fighting would do no good? Greasers will still be at the bottom, Socs will still be Socs, and it doesn’t prove anything.

25. The only time Pony saw Johnny without the suspicious, defeated look was__when he saved the children_.

26. What was shocking about the newspaper headline when Ponyboy arrives home? What did it say? Juvenile Delinquents Turned Heroes

27. Towards the end of the novel, Ponyboy’s opinion of the Socs has drastically changed. Now, what does he think of the Socs? They are not that different

OBJECTIVE D: Identify the literary elements in each of the following quotes from The Outsiders.

28. “My stomach gave a violent start and turned into a hunk of ice.” This is an example of which literary element: metaphor

29. “…and blobs of faces and visions of things past were dancing in the red mist that covered the lot. It swirled into a mass of colors and I felt myself swaying on my feet.” This is an example of which literary element: imagery

30. “I was reminded of Jack London’s books—you know, where the wolf pack waits in silence for one of two members to go down in a fight.” This is an example of which literary element: allusion

31. “The cinders and embers began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants..” This is an example of which literary element: simile

32. “I wasn’t feeling too good in the first place, kind of like I was coming down with something.” This is an example of which literary element: foreshadowing

33. “I heard our Ford’s vvrrrrooooom and thought: Soda’s driving.” The underlined word in this sentence is an example of: onomatopoeia

34. “He was seventeen or so, but he was already old.” This is an example of which literary element: irony

35. “Yet his dark eyes were still laughing and carefree and reckless.” This is an example of which literary element: personification

36. “…but Darry, flexing his muscles, so that they bulged like oversized baseballs, drawled that he wasn’t afraid of any buglers.” This is an example of which literary element: simile