The Outsiders Ch. 4-6 Review

Read the excerpt from chapter 4.

"We crouched in the weeds beside the railroad tracks, listening to the whistle grow louder. The train slowed to a screaming halt. “Now,” whispered Johnny. We ran and pulled ourselves into an open boxcar. We pressed against the side, trying to hold our breath while we listened to the railroad workers walk up and down outside. One poked his head inside, and we froze. But he didn’t see us, and the boxcar rattled as the train started up."

The words used in this excerpt create a mood of -

• boredom

• suspense

• terror

• humor

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Which of the following happens first?

• Ponyboy and Johnny leap from the train.

• Ponyboy realizes he is in the country.

• Johnny tells Ponyboy that his legs are asleep.

• Johnny buys groceries.

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"He still reminded me of a lost puppy who had been kicked too often, but for the first time I saw him as a stranger might see him. He looked hard and tough, because of his black T-shirt and his blue jeans and jacket, and because his hair was heavily greased and so long."

In chapter 4, Ponyboy uses the above figurative comparison to describe Johnny in order to emphasize -

• Johnny's true nature

• how Johnny appears to others

• that Ponyboy has mistreated Johnny

• that he has never understood Johnny

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In chapter 4, Johnny laughs at Ponyboy because -

• Johnny has made Ponyboy blush by telling him he looks like Soda

• Ponyboy does not realize the true color of his own eyes

• Ponyboy is now taking orders from Johnny

• Ponyboy does not realize Johnny was being sarcastic in comparing him to Soda

Read the excerpt from chapter 4.

"It was only last night that Dally and I had sat down behind those girls at the Nightly Double. Glory, I thought with a bewildering feeling of being rushed, things are happening too quick. Too fast. I figured I couldn't get into any worse trouble than murder. Johnny and I would be hiding for the rest of our lives. Nobody but Dally would know where we were, and he couldn't tell anyone because he'd get jailed again for giving us that gun. If Johnny got caught, they'd give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I'd be sent to a reformatory. I'd heard about reformatories from Curly Shepard and I didn't want to go to one at all. So we'd have to be hermits for the rest of our lives, and never see anyone but Dally. Maybe I'd never see Darry or Sodapop again. Or even Two-Bit or Steve. I was in the country, but I knew I wasn't going to like it as much as I'd thought I would. There are things worse than being a greaser."

What is this excerpt mainly about?

• Ponyboy will do anything he can to avoid being sent to a reformatory.

• Although Ponyboy once thought nothing was worse than being a greaser, he now knows differently.

• Ponyboy and Johnny will probably never see their friends or families again.

• In just a short time, Ponyboy's and Johnny's lives have changed dramatically for the worse.

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If Johnny got caught, they'd give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I'd be sent to a reformatory.

In this sentence, the word reformatory is best understood to refer to a place a person is sent for the purpose of -

• humiliation

• studying

• correction

• religious training

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The reader can tell Ponyboy cares about people's opinions of him because he -

• speaks respectfully to the farmer on the tractor

• worries about being sent to a reformatory

• wishes he could find out his predicament was only a dream

• never returned to church after attending with Soda and his friends

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“All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it

broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the east, and

the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and

the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything

held its breath, and then the sun rose.”

This quote is an example of -

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• simile

• personification

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What are Ponyboy and Johnny looking at when Ponyboy recites the line "Nothing gold can stay"?

• The sunrise

• The falling leaves

• Ponyboy's hair

• The windows of the church

In chapter 5, what does Dally give to Ponyboy when he comes to the church?

• A police report

• A knife

• A gun

• A letter from Soda