9-12 vocabulary The Outsiders

Multiple Choice

I looked at Johnny. He was very still, and for a moment I thought in ________.

He's dead already. We're too late.

• affectionately

• stifled

• agony

• mortal

• superiority

Multiple Choice

I ___________a giggle. If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother.

• mortal

• stifled

• superiority

• agony

• affectionately

Multiple Choice

Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a(n) __________.

Johnny was dead. But he wasn't

• clenched

• delirious

• clad

• stupor

• dumbfounded

Multiple Choice

Soda punched him in the ribs _______. "This kiddo can use his head."

• affectionately

• stifled

• mortal

• superiority

• agony

Multiple Choice

If the judge decides Darry isn't a good guardian or something,

I'm _________ to get stuck in a home somewhere.

That's the rotten part of this deal.

• cocky

• idolized

• liable

• remark

• vaguely

Multiple Choice

It was too ________ a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late.

• acquitted

• corny

• pained

• vast

• veered

Multiple Choice

Oh, no, I thought in _________ fear, I've got to be in it. Right then the most important thing in my life was helping us whip the Socs.

• mortal

• agony

• affectionately

• stifled

• superiority

Multiple Choice

Darry's hopes that Soda was asleep were immediately ruined, because he came running in, __________ only in a pair of blue jeans

• stupor

• dumbfounded

• delirious

• clenched

• clad

Multiple Choice

Dally was there, too, swearing under his breath, and turning away with a sick expression on his face. I wondered about it _________.

• cocky

• idolized

• vaguely

• remark

• liable

Multiple Choice

I tried writing about Soda's horse, Mickey Mouse, but I couldn't get it right; it always came out sounding ________. So I started writing names across the paper.

• acquitted

• corny

• pained

• vast

• veered

Multiple Choice

Two-Bit and Johnny were staring at me now. "No..." Two-Bit said, ________.

"No, Ponyboy, that ain't right...you got it wrong..."

• clad

• clenched

• delirious

• dumbfounded

• stupor

Multiple Choice

I looked at Bob's picture and I could begin to see the person we had killed. A reckless, hot-tempered boy, _______and scared stiff at the same time.

• idolized

• liable

• cocky

• vaguely

• remark

Multiple Choice

His face was white, and when he looked at me,

his eyes were wide with a(n) __________ expression.

• veered

• vast

• pained

• corny

• acquitted

Multiple Choice

"Stop it!" Johnny gasped from between __________ teeth. "Shut up about last night! I killed a kid last night."

• dumbfounded

• delirious

• stupor

• clenched

• clad

Multiple Choice

I just looked at him. That was the dumbest ______ I ever heard anyone make. He thought he was mixed up in this?

• cocky

• idolized

• liable

• remark

• vaguely

Multiple Choice

I headed through the trees and cut him off halfway across the park.

He ________ off to the right, but I caught him in a flying tackle before he'd gone more than a couple of steps

• acquitted

• corny

• pained

• vast

• veered

Multiple Choice

I think he could have whipped anyone, in the state he was in.

Today's Tuesday, and you've been asleep and ________ since Saturday night.

• stupor

• dumbfounded

• delirious

• clenched

• clad

Multiple Choice

Sodapop looked down at me with mock ___________ , but Darry went on: "You can see he uses it for one thing -- to grow hair on".

• affectionately

• agony

• mortal

• stifled

• superiority

Multiple Choice

That's a habit I have. Then he said I was _______ and the whole case was closed. Just like that.

• veered

• vast

• pained

• corny

• acquitted

Multiple Choice

Did he have a kid brother who _________ him?

Maybe a big brother who kept buffing him not to be so wild?

• cocky

• idolized

• liable

• remark

• vaguely