Chapter 3: That Was Then, This Is Now

Besides being smart, what did Bryon and Charlie have in common?

• They read a lot

• They hated people of authority

• They wanted to make money the honest way

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

To Bryon's surprise, Charlie agreed to ...

• give him a job as soon as he turned 17

• let him borrow his car Saturday night

• help him find a job

Bryon invited Cathy to ...

• dinner and a movie

• a dance at the high school gym

• a walk in the park and a coke

Mark was planning to go out on Saturday with ...

• a girl he had just met

• three of his friends

• Mark's old girlfriend Angela Shepard

What suspicion did Bryon have about the shirt Mark gave him to wear on his date with Cathy?

• That he had hustled money to buy it.

• That he had borrowed it from Charlie.

• That he might have stolen it.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Mr. Carlson made a comment about M&M's hair and the fact that he ...

• looked like a bum

• read instead of doing chores

• was flunking (failing) math and gym

M&M's English teacher said that he ...

• had the most brilliant mind she had come across in five years of teaching

• should be writer

• was a thinker, not an athlete

When she met Ponyboy Curtis, Cathy ...

• was obviously impressed with his striking good looks

• didn't seem intereted

• smiled and shook his hand

Curtis took Bryon to the parking lot where he found Mark ...

• facing a stranger flashing a knife

• lying on the ground, gasping for air

• lying unconscious on the ground, his face covered in blood

Ponyboy Curtis didn't know that ...

• Angela had been after him

• Byron didn't care for him

• Angela and Byron had dated