The Outsiders Chapters 1-6

Who is the narrator of this story?

• Dally
• Darry
• Ponyboy
• Soda

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How did Ponyboy's parents die?

• In an airplane crash
• In a skiing accident
• In an auto wreck
• They drowned 

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Which member of the greasers gets jumped by the Socs in the beginning of Chapter 1?

• Ponyboy
• Soda
• Johnny

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What is the setting of Chapter 2?

• Park
• Drive-In Movie
• Empty lot beside the house
• The DX where Soda works

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Cherry Valence says, "Take your feet off my chair and shut your trap,"  to Dally when he is being rude at the drive in.  What inference can we make about Cherry based on her dialogue above?

• Cherry is shy and timid
• Cherry always speaks her mind even if it's to a "hood"
• Cherry likes to see how far she can push people 
• Cherry is stubborn and vicious

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"And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He'd use it, too, if he ever got jumped again. They had scared him that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body..."
The author most likely includes this passage for which of the following reasons?

• to foreshadow an event to come later 
• to show that Johnny is always prepared
• to add danger and suspense to the novel to make sure the reader keeps reading
• none of the above

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In Chapter 2, Ponyboy explains how Johnny got severely beaten by a group of Socs.  This event happened in the past, but Ponyboy explains it as if it is going on in real time.  This is an example of which literary element?

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• foreshadowing
• flashback

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"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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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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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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