Name
The Outsiders
Part
1: Multiple Choice (25 points)
Directions
Read the question and then
circle the letter next to the answer you think is correct.
1. In which town is the
abandoned church where Johnny and Pony hide out?
a. Tonkawa
b. Guthrie
c. Windrixville
d.
2. How does Darry know Paul
Holden, his first opponent at the rumble?
a. They played football together in high school
b. Paul jumped Darry once
c. Paul brought his car to the garage where Darry works
d. Darry dated Paul’s sister
3. In which sport does Pony
participate?
a. football
b. track
c. wrestling
d. gymnastics
4. What
is the name of Sodapop’s horse?
a. Daniel
b. Captain Steve
c. Lightning
d. Mickey Mouse
5. What does Pony say is
visible on both the
a. sunsets
b. rainbows
c. sunrises
d. the moon
6. What book do Johnny and
Ponyboy read in the church?
a. How the West was Won
b. Rumble Fish
c. Gone With the Wind
d. Great Expectations
7. Who kills Dally?
a. Darry
b. the police
c. Bob and Randy
d. A drunk driver
8. Who is Randy?
a. A greaser from the enemy gang
b. A Soc who refuses to fight in the rumble
c. One of Ponyboy’s high school teachers
d. None of the above
9. Why does Sodapop’s
girlfriend,
a. To go to college
b. Because her parents are moving.
c. Because she is pregnant.
d. because she is wanted by the police
10. How does Ponyboy get a
concussion?
a. A roof beam falls on him during the fire
b. A soc hits him with a pipe
c. He is kicked in the head during the rumble
d. He falls down a staircase in a fire
11. Which character dies first?
a. Johnny
b. Bob
c. Dally
d. Nobody dies
12. Which character has movie
star good looks?
a. Sodapop
b. Two-Bit
c. Darry
d. Cherry
13. How old is Darry?
a. twenty-three
b. twenty
c. nineteen
d. eighteen
14. Why are Cherry and Marcia
alone at the drive in?
a. Their boyfriends left because they did not like the movies
that were playing
b. Their boyfriends walked off with two other girls from their
high school
c. They decided to go out by themselves that night
d. They walked away from their boyfriends when they found that
they had booze.
15. Who is the second youngest
member of the Greasers?
a. Johnny
b. Two-Bit
c. Steve
d. Soda
16. When did Ponyboy’s
recurring nightmares begin?
a. The night of his parent’s funeral
b. The night Johnny killed Bob
c. The night he found out that Sodapop was dropping out of
school
d. The night he met Cherry Valance
17. How did the Curtis
brothers’ parents die?
a. In a car accident
b. In a roller coaster accident
c. In a boating accident
d. In a horse-back riding accident
18. What is Ponyboy’s real
name?
a. Fredrick
b. Walter
c. Jason
d. Ponyboy
19. Why did
a. He wanted to scare them
b. He wanted to die
c. He wanted to show them that it was unloaded
d. He wanted Pony to take it away
20. What happens to Johnny
after he is brutally beaten by the Socs?
a. He is afraid to fight
b. He carries a six-inch switchblade
c. He vows that he will have revenge against the Socs
d. He remains in his house most of the time
21. The morning after Ponyboy
returns home, what does the newspaper headline say?
a. YOUNG HOODLUMS ARRESTED AT ABANDONED CHURCH
b. JUVENILE DELINQUENTS CAPTURED
c. JUVENILE DELINQUENTS TURN HEROES
d. INNOCENT YOUTHS REALEASED BY POLICE
22. How did the story end?
a. With the death of Johnny
b. With a stated moral
c. As it began
d. With a letter from Johnny
23. What does the warfare
between the Greasers and the Socs grow out of?
a. social conflict
b. gang rivalry
c. school rivalry
d. racial conflict
24. Why doesn’t Sodapop drink
alcohol like the other boys?
a. He believes that drinking is wrong
b. He gets drunk on just plain living
c. He wants nothing to interfere with his fighting abilities
d. He doesn’t want to set a bad example for Ponyboy
25. Which one of the Socs comes
to visit Pony when he is sick?
a. George
b. Bob
c. Cherry
d. Randy
Part
2: True/False (10 points)
Directions
In the blank next to the sentence write True if the
statement is completely true or write False if any part of the
statement is false.
1. Darry reprimands
Pony for going to the movie alone.
2.
The Greasers envy the Soc's money and social advantages.
3.
According to Ponyboy, the words tuff and tough mean the same thing.
4.
Dallas Winston has the look of a little dark puppy that has been kicked too
many times.
5.
Sodapop drops out of high school because of his poor academic performance.
6.
Ponyboy loves books and movies, but does poorly in his schoolwork.
7.
English is one of Ponyboy's favorite high school subjects.
8.
Ponyboy kills Bob in self-defense.
9.
Cherry Valance, the Soc who was Bob's girl friend, acts as a spy for the
Greasers.
10.
Ponyboy's hatred of the Socs becomes increasingly intense after Johnny's death.
Part 3: Sequence of events (10 points)
Directions
List the following major events
in the proper order.
a. Dally is killed by the police.
b. Pony and Johnny hide out in Windrixville.
c. Pony is reconciled with Darry at the
hospital.
d. Pony accepts Johnny’s death.
e. Johnny kills Bob.
f. Johnny dies.
g. The gang rescues Pony when he is jumped by
the Socs.
h. The Greasers beat the Socs in the rumble.
i. The Socs confront Cherry and Marcia with
the Greasers.
j. Pony, Dally, and Johnny rescue the children
in the burning church.
Part
4: Short Answer (40 points)
Directions
On a separate sheet of paper
answer the following questions. You do not have to use complete sentences.
1. List three ways in which the
Greasers are different from the Socs. (6 points)
2. In what ways does Dally
differ from his friends? List three. (6 points)
3. What is the result of the
Soc’s attack of Johnny and Ponyboy at the Park? (3 points)
4. List three things Ponyboy
and Johnny do to pass the time while hiding in the church. (6 points)
5. What do Johnny, Dally, and
Ponyboy do when they discover that the church is on fire? (3
points)
6. Why is Darry so concerned
about Ponyboy’s dreams? (3 points)
7. What is Dally’s reaction to
Johnny’s condition? (3 points)
8. Why doesn’t Pony want to
think about Johnny or Dally? (3 points)
9. What is the outcome of the
hearing? (3 points)
10. How does Johnny’s note help
change Pony’s attitude toward himself, his future, and his
friends? (4 points)
Part
5: Essay (15 points)
Directions
Choose one of the following
essay topics. In an essay at least three paragraphs long and using examples
from the book explain your answer to the question you have chosen.
1 Think of the role of physical
violence in the novel. Is the violence shocking, predicting, boring, or
melodramatic? Do you think such violence has a different effect on readers
today than it did when the novel was first written?
2. Discuss the role of the
novel’s physical setting. How does the division between the East and West side
represent the conflict within the novel itself?
3. Compare and contrast the
Curtis brothers (Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy). How does their relationship
change over the course of the novel?
Extra Credit
Who is the author of the poem
that Ponyboy recites to Johnny when they are at the church?
(2 points)