The Outsiders Final Assessment

'I should be scared, I thought with an odd detached feeling, but I'm not. The cinders and embers began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants. Suddenly in the red heat and blinding smoke I remembered wondering what it was like in a burning ember, and I thought: What does the following sentence show?: Now I know. It's not hell. Why aren't I scared?',' Mark only one.

• A) emphasizes how dangerous the fire is and how the boys are in a risky situation.

• B) emphasizes the importance of the fire to Ponyboy's thoughts.

• C) describes Johnny's life as heroic and valuable.

• D) shows that the church is burning down by a big fire.

Which of the following lines is a metaphor?

• 'So dawn goes down to day.'

• 'Her early leaf's a flower.'

• 'Her hardest hue to hold.'

• 'So Eden sank to grief.'

Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy are:

• You look out for yourself and nothin’ can touch you.

• I was crazy; you know that.

• You can see the sunset real good from the West Side.

• Stay gold.

Dally is cut down by police bullets when he

• challenges the police with an unloaded gun.

• threatens a doctor in the hospital with a knife.

• attempts to shoot at the police after robbing a grocery store.

• runs from the police after they order him to halt.

When Johnny died, Ponyboy and Two-Bit were with him.

• True

• False

To Ponyboy’s surprise, Johnny enjoys:

• listening to his reading Gone With the Wind aloud.

• listening to stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

• swapping jokes and stories about their families and friends.

• Hot Cheetos and Sprite.

Even before the rumble between the greasers and the Socs, Ponyboy realizes that

• a skin fight is the only way to establish each group’s respective territories.

• the Socs will not honor the terms that the war councils have agreed to.

• revenge is justified if your friends have been attacked.

• violence accomplishes nothing.

Read the sentence from the passage. Which answer choice best describes the feeling the sentence creates? 'Dally was there, too, swearing under his breath, and turning away with a sick expression on his face.'

• Nervousness

• Sadness

• Relief

• Shock

In the rumble, the Greasers won.

• True

• False

A week after Bob’s death, Johnny decides that it would be best:

• to remain hidden until the police stopped looking for them.

• to hop a freight train and to Texas to hide.

• to turn themselves in to the police.

• to return to town and deny any involvement in Bob’s death.