Chapters 1-2 Comprehension Questions-The Outsiders

Ponyboy's parents

• were killed in an auto accident

• were divorced

• placed all 3 brothers up for adoption

• gave up raising the brothers and moved away

The first time Ponyboy was jumped

• His good friend, Johnny, saved him

• His younger brother, Sodapop, saved him

• His older brother, Darry, saved him

• He escaped harm by running away

The novel that Ponyboy was reading for his English class was

• The Gang

• Great Expectations

• Hard Times

• To Kill a Mockingbird

While he was in school, Darry, Ponyboy's brother, was

• Captain of the football team

• Expelled for a knife fight in the parking lot

• Recruiting younger kids to join the greasers

• Valedictorian

The soc that Ponyboy, Johnny, Dally meet at the drive-in is

• Alayna Grellner

• Shareese Smith

• Juliana Cade

• Cherry Valance

The girls were without a car at the drive-in theatre because

• They were not old enough to drive

• Their dates were drinking alcohol

• Their car broke down

• Their parents dropped them off

Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy are

• Cousins

• Socs

• Neighbors

• Orphans

On his way home from the movies, Ponyboy

• finds Johnny beat up in the corner lot

• gets jumped by some Socs

• Sees Dally slashing Tim Shepard's tires

• Meets Cherry for the first time

The Greasers help Ponyboy by

• Chasing the Socs away

• Lying to Darry

• Rumbling with Tim Shepherd's gang

• Comforting him

Soda secretly tells Ponyboy that

• Dally is wanted for murder

• He (Soda) plans to marry Sandy

• Darry is in poor health

• He (Soda) wants to break up with Sandy