The Outsiders Review

What did the Socs do when they jumped Ponyboy after he left the movie?

• They said he needed more grease and poured a can of motor oil over his head
• They threatened to cut off his hair, and one pulled a knife on him
• They stuffed him into a trunk of a Corvair and drove him to a vacant lot
• They swung bicycle chains and warned him to stay out of their drive-in

Cherry was "white as a sheet" after Ponyboy told her about_________

• Johnny's beating by 4 Socs driving a blue mustang
• Randy's threat to teach the "dirty greasers" a lesson they'd never forget
• the rumble in which Sodapop had been cut with a broken bottle
• the vivid, recurring nightmares he had about his parents' car crash

According to Cherry, how are greasers different from Socs?

• They could find a little good even in bad situations
• They forgave more quickly
• They seemed older
• They were more emotional

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Before she left with the Socs, what did Cherry say that shocked Ponyboy?

• She wanted to talk to him at school
• She could fall in love with Dally
• She had been born on the East Side
• Her parents were a lot like Johnny's

What comment did Johnny make while Ponyboy read from GONE WITH THE WIND?

• Ponyboy would probably ride into sure death to be gallant

• The Southern gentleman reminded him of Dally

• The Confederate and Union armies were just like greasers and Socs

• He and Ponyboy should run away to Atlanta

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While they were saving the kids, what did Ponyboy notice about Johnny?

• He gently placed the kids outside one by one

• His mouth was set in the same grim line that was Dally's trademark

• His eyes didn't have their usual defeated, suspicious look

• His fear seemed even greater that that of the kids

At the Tasty Freeze, what did Randy tell Ponyboy as they sat in the mustang?

• He had tipped off the police about the rumble
• Bob had been trying for weeks to get the greasers angry enough to rumble
• The Socs were planning to bring weapons to the rumble
• He was sick of the fighting and wasn't going to show up at the rumble

Before the rumble, what did Ponyboy ask the guys in his gang?

• whether they really hated the Socs

• how they justified hurting someone

• when they thought they'd stop fighting

• why they liked to fight

Ponyboy worried that when he'd been delirious, he had _________

• revealed Dally's secret

• asked only for Sodapop, not for Darry

• talked about where he'd hidden the gun

• admitted his true feelings for Cherry

In Ponyboy's room, Randy looked at Ponyboy strangely when he said ___________

• he had killed Bob

• told him Cherry was a spy

• told him to "stay away"

• asked him to visit Johnny at the hospital

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