7th Grade GT/AA Semester Exam Review Fall 2023

In The Outsiders, who is telling the story?

• Sodapop Curtis

• Darry Curtis

• Dallas Winston (Dally)

• Ponyboy Curtis

What point of view is The Outsiders told from?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

If a story is told from the first person point of view, what is the reader able to understand?

• How all of the characters feel, or what they are all thinking.

• How the character who is telling the story is feeling or what they are thinking.

• A description of the setting

• A description of all of the characters and what they look like.

How does Dally die in The Outsiders?

• He takes his own life after robbing the grocery store.

• He dies in the church fire where Johnny saved the kids.

• He robs a grocery store, runs from the police, acts like he will shoot the police, then gets shot by them instead.

• He dies in the rumble, at the hands of a Soc.

2. "Darry took a step toward me, but I backed away. "Don't touch me," I said. My heart was pounding in slow thumps, throbbing at the side of my head, and I wondered if everyone else could hear it. Maybe that's why they're all looking at me, I thought, they can hear my heart beating..."

What does the descriptive language in this excerpt help the reader understand?

• The traumatic events Ponyboy has endured are catching up to him, physically.

• Darry is worried about how Ponyboy is feeling.

• Dally is anxious about the events he has put in motion by robbing the store.

• Ponyboy is worried about what the Greasers think about him.

Define the word "resolve."

• To end something.

• To solve a problem.

• To solve a math problem again.

• To solve a mystery.

Define conflict.

• a problem

• a solution

• the most exciting part of a story

• the solution to the problem

In a play, why are stage directions important when we read a play?

• They tell us where the characters are standing on the stage.

• They are not important--we can just skip over them when we read plays.

• They reveal important action in the play, in addition to describing the setting.

• They reveal to the reader what the characters look like and what they are wearing.

Define dialogue.

• The main message of the piece of literature.

• How a character is feeling.

• Description in the stage directions.

• What characters are saying.

"n a flash of light, Young Ebenezer is gone, and in his place stands an Older Scrooge, this one a man in the prime of his life. Beside him stands a young woman in a mourning dress. She is crying. She speaks to the man, with hostility."

What does this reveal about Scrooge?

• This shows how Scrooge cannot be loved.

• This shows that Scrooge, at one time, was in a relationship that went bad.

• This shows what type of person Srooge really is.

• This shows that Scrooge was once really handsome.