The Outsiders Test Review

What internal conflict is being described throughout the first excerpt (pgs. 31-36)?

• Ponyboy has feelings for Cherry

• Cherry tries to convince Ponyboy that Dally is just as bad as any Soc who jumps people for fun.

• Ponyboy wants to be a Soc

• Ponyboy is struggling with being a Greaser and remembers thinking only Greasers have problems

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Based on the sentence, “But when I came back to reality and looked at her, I was startled to find her as white as a sheet.” What can we infer about Cherry’s character now?

• Cherry is sick

• Cherry is mean

• Cherry is spiteful

• Cherry is compassionate.

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Based on Ponyboy’s comment, “I digested that.” what can we infer about Ponyboy’s point of view of Greasers?

• Ponyboy is realizing he might have his own stereotypes that Cherry is now making him aware of.

• Ponyboy does not understand what Cherry is telling him.

• Cherry is not making any sense with her theories.

• Ponyboy is angry by what Cherry has said.

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Based on the last two paragraphs on p.35, where Two-Bit and Steve talk to Ponyboy and Johnny about greaser girls and girls in general, what characteristics do Two-Bit and Steve show?

• The Greasers are territorial of their girls

• Greasers can only date Greasers

• The Greasers (boys) care about each other

• No one gets along

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Which sentence from the first paragraph of Chapter 3 shows Ponyboy’s character is developing?

• “Of course greasy girls would have acted a lot tougher, but there was a basic sameness.”

• “I think they were scared of us.”

• “They were getting over it, though, as we walked to Two-Bit’s house to pick up the car.”

• “Two-Bit finally talked them into letting us drive them home in his car.”

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Based on the line, “It seemed funny to me that Socs---if these girls were any example---were just like us. They liked the Beatles and thought Elvis Presley was out, and we thought the Beatles were rank and that Elvis was tuff, but that seemed the only difference to me.” which conflict was being resolved?

• Conflict is not solved here

• Person vs. Person

• Person vs. Group/Society

• Internal conflict

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S.E. Hinton most likely wrote the scene that opens Chapter 3 in order to do the following

• Show how the Socs and Greasers are the same

• Develop the external conflict by allowing Cherry’s character to continue showing Ponyboy how things are rough all over.

• Show how the Socs and Greasers are different

• Build a romantic connection between characters

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Based on the line, “We’re always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn’t want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we’re always searching for something to satisfy us, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we could.” what part of the story is the writer developing?

• Internal conflict

• Ponyboy’s internal conflict, which now rounds out Ponyboy as a character

• Cherry’s internal conflict, which now rounds out Cherry as a character

• Climax

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Based on context clues, what does “aloofness” mean in the line: “Socs were always behind a wall of aloofness, careful not to let their real selves show through.”

• Distant

• Money

• Power

• Shyness

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What is the central idea of the following quote: “Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the sights you want to see.”

• The streets act as another character in the novel

• The characters are only 16 years old

• The setting shapes who the characters are

• The setting helps the reader understand the novel

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