Outsiders Study Guide CH. 10

Describe how Ponyboy gets home from the hospital after Johnny dies and Dally runs out of the room.

• he takes Dally's car
• he hitchhikes
• Tim Shepard picks him up
• a man sees him walking and asks if he needs a ride

Describe the injuries each of the Greasers have after the rumble

Dally can't accept Johnny's death because

• Johnny was only 16
• Johnny was the only person he loved
• Dally feels he should have died instead of Johnny
• He was going to take Johnny to New York

From a phone booth, Dally tells Darry

• he robbed a grocery store
• he stole a car
• he held up a bank
• he kidnapped Cherry

Dally raises the gun at the cops

• knowing it has no bullets
• to try to save himself
• so he could run across the lot to Darry's car
• to surrender

Why won't there be any editorials written about Dally?

Pony ends up in the hospital because of

• emotional trauma related to Dally's death
• a stomach ailment caused by worrying
• a concussion from the rumble
• his burns have become infected

Why is Ponyboy worried if he called out for Darry when he was sick? (Think of how their relationship has changed throughout the novel)

Johnny told the nurses to give his copy of Gone With the Wind to

• Dally
• the kids he saved at school
• Ponyboy
• his mom