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Outsider Test review
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Describe Ponyboy Curtis: Physical traits, personality traits and his importance to the novel. | He's 14 yr. old, redish brown hair, gray green eyes, small but good build, has a high IQ, does well in school and skipped a grade, doesn't use his head, he likes movies and reading. He is the main character and the novel is written from his point of vie |
| Describe Johnny Cade: physical traits, personality traits and his importance to the novel. | He's 16 yr. old, has jet black hair and big black eyes, he's jumpy and appears to be "a puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers." His parents abuse or ignore him. He ends up stabbing Bob Sheldon. He dies from a bro |
| ____ is a red headed cheerleader Soc who Pony and Johnny meet a the movies. | Cherry Valence |
| ____ is Pony's happy-go-lucky, handsome brother who understands everyone. | Sodapop Curtis |
| ___ is the toughest and most bitter member of the group with white-blonde hair, icy blue eyes, who seems to possess a hatred of the world after living on the wild side of New York City. | Dallas "Dally" Winston |
| ____ is the stocky wise cracker of the gang who is always keeping the group laughing with his funny remarks and is famous for shoplifting with his black-handled switchblade. | Keith "Two-bit" Matthews |
| ____ is Soda's cocky best friend who loves cars and thinks of Pony as a pesty tagalong. | Steve Randle |
| ___ is Pony's tall, muscular, intelligent, oldest brother who is hard and firm. | Darrel "Darry" Curtis |
| ___ is Cherry's boyfriend who is killed. | Bob Sheldon |
| ___ is a tall, lanky cowboy with blonde hair who used to have buck teeth, listens to Hank Williams, and is Dally's rodeo partner. | Buck Merill |
| What happened to Pony's parents? | They died in a car accident 8 months ago. |
| What does Pony tell Cherry at the movies? | Pony tells her that Johnny was severely beaten by a group of Soc's in a blue Mustang. The gang found Johnny in the lot and he was bloody and beaten. His face was cut up from the Soc's rings (Bob Sheldon). Johnny was tough and was use to beatings from |
| ____ was Soda's ornery horse that he adopted, but one day he got sold and Soda cried because he missed him. | Mickey Mouse |
| Why does Pony initially decide to run away from home? | Darry and Pony get into an argument because Pony came in at 2:00 in the morning after he fell asleep in the lot. In anger, Darry hits Pony which never happens in their family. Pony decides to run away. |
| Describe what happened to Johnny and Pony at the park. | The boys walk to the park to cool off. By the fountain a blue Mustang pulls up and Soc's get out including Bob and Randy, both are drunk and looking for trouble. After exchanging insults, Bob decided Ponyboy "needs a bath." Pony head keeps getting dunk |
| Where do Pony and Johnny stay when they ran away? | Both hop the 315 train to Windrixville and stay in an abandoned church on Jay Mountain. |
| How do Pony and Johnny disguise themselves? | Pony- cuts and bleaches his hair. Johnny- cuts and washes the grease out of his hair. |
| What book do the boys read to pass time? | Gone with the Wind |
| What events happen to cause Pony, Johnny and Dally to end up in the hospital? | Dally comes to visit the boys and takes them for food. When they return the church is on fire and a group of school kids are there. Some kids are caught inside, so Johnny and Pony go into the burning church to save the kids. As Pony gets out, Dally hit |
| What is Bob's real problem, according to Randy? | Bob's parents never say no. They let him get away with everything. He has no boundaries and keeps testing them, but they just blame themselves. |
| ___ wins the rumble. | Greasers |
| How and why does Dally die? | After Johnny dies Dally can't take it any longer. He robs a store then calls the gang to meet him in the lot. The police arrive as the boys arrive. Dally pulls out an unloaded gun to use as a bluff. The police shoot and kill him. He has nothing to li |
| What happened between Soda and Sandy? | Sandy got pregnant and moved to Florida with her grandparents. Even though the baby isn't Soda's he offered to marry her, but she refused. He still loves her and sent a letter, but it returns unopened and he knew that she no longer loved him. |
| What does Johnny tell Pony that he thinks "gold" means and how does he tell him? | Johnny tells Pony in a note that's left in the book, Gone with the Wind. He thinks it means being "green" or good and innocent like when you are a kid. He tells Pony that he shouldn't get hard like Dally and that he should stay innocent. |
| What does Pony decide to write his literature paper about? | He writes about the events that have happened over the past few weeks. We later learn that we are reading the novel that he actually wrote for his literature paper. |
| Describe the Greasers: | poor kids from the EAST side of town, have rough homes, wear blue jeans and t-shirts, leather jackets, boots or tennis shoes, have long greasy hair, rive souped-up old cars, like Elvis, smoke, shoplift and hold up gas stations, emotional, carry switchbla |
| Greaser characters: | Johnny, Two-Bit, Soda, Darry, Pony, Dally, Steve, Sandy, Evie, Sylvia |
| Describe the Soc's: | short for "socials," WEST side rich kids, drive nice cars-Mustangs and Corvairs, like the Beatles, wear madras, throw beer blasts, jump Greasers for fun, are sophisticated, "cool to the point of not feeling anything," get all the breaks, not loyal (like a |
| Soc characters: | Cherry, Bob, Randy, Marcia, David |
| What do the 2 groups have in common? | groups of teenage friends, live in same city and attend same school, both fight, go to movies, drink and enjoy rodeos, break the law, stick up for their friends, both struggle to understand the other group, both have problems, both see the same sunset |
| ___ said , "I think I'm going to marry Sandy. After she gets out of school and I get a better job and everything." | Sodapop Curtis |
| ___ said, "You must make such interestin' conversation. You keepin' your mouth shut and Johnny not sayin' anything." | Two-Bit Matthews |
| ___ said, "Things are rough all over." | Cherry Valence |
| ___ said, "It's not just the money. Part of it is, but not all of it. You Greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated- cool to the point of not feeling anything." | Cherry Valence |
| ___ "It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset." | Ponyboy Curtis |
| ___ said, "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston. I hope I never see him again or I will." | Cherry Valence |
| ___ said, "Ponyboy, what on earth is a matter with you? Can't you use your head?" | Darry Curtis |
| ___ said, "You could use a bath Greaser." | Bob Sheldon |
| ___ stared carryin a heater...."Don't worry, it ain't loaded...but it sure does help a bluff." | Dally Winston |
| ___ said, "Oh, Pony, I thought we'd lost you....like we did mom and dad." | Darry Curtis |
| ___ said, "You can't win, even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing." | Randy Adderson |
| ___ said, "No wonder he hates your guts." | Two-Bit Matthes |
| ___ said, "Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold." | Johnny Cade |
| ___ said, "Never could keep that hair back...that's what you get tryin' to help people, you little punk, that's what you get....Oh Johnny, don't die, please don't die." | Dally Winston |
| ___ said, "I don't know. I can't stand to hear y'all fight. It's like I'm the middle man in a tug o' war and I'm being split in half." | Sodapop Curtis |
| ___ said, "Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore. It was important to me." | Ponyboy Curtis |
| __________ is an interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time in order to help the reader understand the present situation. | Flashback |
| ____ is the use of clues to build suspense and suggest events that will happen later in the plot. | Foreshadowing |
| _________ is a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people that has its own distinct vocabulary, pronunciation or grammar. | Dialect |
| Outsider's is written in ______ point of view. How do we know? | First person; Pony is telling the story from his point of view. He is the main character who is telling the story, and he uses pronouns like "I." So, we only know things from his point of view. |
| _____ point of view is when the narrator is not a character in the story, but an outside observer. | Third person |
| Describe how Johnny passes away and compare it to Dally's death. | From the fire, Johnny has a broken back and 3rd degree burns, he is in the hospital and not doing well. Dally and Pony visit him and Johnny dies quietly, his head sinks into the pillow. Dally's death was loud and intentional. |
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