The Outsiders Chapters 3-4

"Shut up talkin' like that," Two-Bit said fiercely, messing up Johnny's hair. "We couldn't get along without you, so you can just shut up!"
What does this dialogue reveal about Two-Bit and Johnny's relationship? 

• Two bit and Johnny fight a lot because they are brothers.
• Two-Bit is tired of listening to Johnny talk.
• Two-Bit is mad at Johnny.
• Two-Bit is protective of Johnny.

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What foreshadowing in Chapter 2 lets you know that Johnny would kill someone using a knife?

• It didn't foreshadow anything
• Johnny carved something in a tree
• Johnny was frantic he had lost his knife
• It told of Johnny showing off his knife

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Page 47, paragraph 9, Johnny says, "I'll kill myself or something." What is Hinton's purpose for using this literary device?

• foreshadowing a future event
• showing that Johnny is violent
• telling the reader that Ponyboy wants to kill Johnny
• showing how Johnny is a loser

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On page 48, paragraph 3, Ponyboy is remembering how everyone used to love his mom. He uses the phrase, 'My mother was golden and beautiful.' 
What is Hinton's purpose for using this phrase?

• To illustrate how the sun looked when she had died.
• To show that Dally had been in love with Ponyboy's mother.
• To show that her hair had been golden.
• To allude to how good and kind Ponyboy's mother had been.

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On page 57, Hinton uses thoughts and words to describe how Ponyboy was freaking out after Johnny killed Bob, yet Johnny was very calm.
What was Hinton's purpose for showing this?

• To illustrate how Johnny has nothing to lose and Ponyboy has everything to lose.
• To show that Ponyboy is overly dramatic.
• To show that Johnny doesn't care of anyone or anything.
• To illustrate how mean Johnny is.

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On page 60, paragraph 4, Johnny states that, 'He sounded so much like Darry that I stared at him.'
What was Hinton's purpose for telling us this?

• To show that Darry was just like Dally and neither one of them cared for Ponyboy at all.
• To show how mean everyone was to Ponyboy.
• To show the reader how everyone cared for Ponyboy and took on the parental role.
• To illustrate how careless Ponyboy was and how it would get him into trouble.

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Ponyboy describes the shirt Dally loans him as being '...about sixty-million sizes too big.'
What literary device is this?

• alliteration
• allusion
• imagery
• hyperbole

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When Ponyboy states, 'There are things worse than being a greaser,' on page 65, paragraph 1, this is an example of which literary device?

• foreshadowing
• personification
• metaphor
• simile

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When Darry slaps Ponyboy at the end of Chapter 3, how does this incident propel the action of the novel forward?

• Dally tells Ponyboy that he didn't mean to hit him, but Ponyboy doesn't believe him

• It causes Ponyboy to run away with Cherry

• Ponyboy heads to the park with Johnny

• If Darry hadn't hit Ponyboy, he wouldn't have run to the park.

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At the end of chapter 3, Ponyboy says, "Things gotta get better, I figured.  They couldn't get worse.  I was wrong."  This is an example of _________.

• foreshadowing
• mood 
• theme
• symbolism