5-8 vocabulary The Outsiders

Multiple Choice

I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it _________ me.

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Multiple Choice

"You're starved?" Johnny was so ___________ he nearly squeaked.

I remembered the baloney.

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Multiple Choice

I looked at Johnny ___________. Johnny sighed.

"I'm gonna cut mine too, and wash the grease out, but I can't bleach it."

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Multiple Choice

Two-Bit left me sitting on the bench at the bus stop while he went to a gas station to buy some cigarettes. I was kind of sick to my stomach and sort of _________.

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Multiple Choice

"all right," Two-Bit said _________.

"But Darry 'll kill me if you're really sick and go ahead and fight anyway."

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Multiple Choice

I _____________ the scene with pride. I was the youngest one there.

Even Curly, if he had been there, had turned fifteen, so he was older than me.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Multiple Choice

I started to laugh weakly. I guess that guy knew how close to __________ I really was, for he talked to me in a low soothing voice all the way to the hospital.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Multiple Choice

Johnny didn't say anything. But he stared

at the dashboard with such hurt _______ that I could have bawled.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Multiple Choice

If something beefed him, he didn't keep quiet about it,

and if you rubbed him the wrong way --- look out.

Not even Darry wanted to __________ with him.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Multiple Choice

He wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that __________, suspicious look in his eyes.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Multiple Choice

Then, grabbing my shirt, he _________ me to my feet.

"Come on"! He half dragged me down the street.

• drawled

• exploits

• hauled

• mimicking

• recurring

Multiple Choice

Two-Bit was telling me about one of

his many __________ while we did the dishes.

• drawled

• exploits

• hauled

• mimicking

• recurring

Multiple Choice

He'd grab one guy's press hat and another's camera

and walk around interviewing the nurses and __________ TV reporters.

• drawled

• exploits

• hauled

• mimicking

• recurring

Multiple Choice

I never could remember exactly what happened in it.

Soda began sleeping with me, and it stopped __________ so often,

but it happened often enough for Darry to take me to a doctor.

• drawled

• exploits

• hauled

• mimicking

• recurring

Multiple Choice

Darry, flexing his muscles so that they bulged like oversized baseballs,

_________ that he wasn't afraid of any burglars,

and that we didn't really have anything worth taking.

• drawled

• exploits

• mimicking

• recurring

• hauled

Multiple Choice

That was as far as the __________ went. Johnnycake's eyes were fearful and sensitive; hers were cheap and hard.

• divert

• doggedly

• hesitation

• numbly

• resemblance

Multiple Choice

Two-Bit knew what I meant, but ____________ pretended not to. He seemed to feel that if you said something was all right, it immediately was, no matter what.

• divert

• doggedly

• hesitation

• numbly

• resemblance

Multiple Choice

Two-Bit didn't notice the expression in his voice.

It's true, I thought __________ he is dying.

• divert

• doggedly

• hesitation

• numbly

• resemblance

Multiple Choice

The phone rang, and after a moment's ________, Darry turned from me to it.

He said "Hello" and then listened. He hung up quickly.

• divert

• doggedly

• hesitation

• numbly

• resemblance

Multiple Choice

It was the reward of two hours of walking aimlessly around

a hardware store to ____________ suspicion.

• divert

• doggedly

• hesitation

• numbly

• resemblance