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The Outsiders - Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Darry seems to like being ________ by Soda.

a)

muttered

b)

teased

c)

dulled

d)

jumped

2.

I ________ that red Corvair trailing me.

a)

teased

b)

dig

c)

bothered

d)

spotted

3.

He's really proud of you 'cause you're so ________.

a)

brainy

b)

dull

c)

tough

d)

tuff

4.

I had never been ________, but I had seen Johnny after four Socs got hold of him.

a)

teased

b)

spotted

c)

muttered

d)

jumped

5.

I'm usually ________ quiet around people.

a)

pretty

b)

dull

c)

teasing

d)

gingerly

6.

I touched my cheek ________.

a)

teasingly

b)

tough

c)

gingerly

d)

dully

7.

I heard a ________ curse and got slugged again.

a)

jumped

b)

muttered

c)

gingerly

d)

spotted

8.

I was sweating something ________, although I was cold.

a)

pretty

b)

tough

c)

fierce

d)

dull

9.

No one ________ movies and books the way I do.

a)

teases

b)

takes up

c)

digs

d)

brings up

10.

In New York, Dally ________________________ in gang fights.

a)

blew off steam

b)

let someone in on something

c)

shook like a leaf

d)

took up

11.

His face was all _______ and bruised.

a)

jumped

b)

taken up

c)

shaken up like a leaf

d)

cut up

12.

Soda always _______ for me.

a)

teases

b)

takes up

c)

cuts up

d)

mutters

13.

"I didn't know you were out of the _______ yet, Dally."

a)

bunch

b)

wisecracker

c)

cooler

d)

fierce

14.

He looks _______ and I don't.

a)

tough

b)

dull

c)

ginger

d)

beaten up

15.

But maybe their boys didn't get arrested or _______ or busted up in rodeos.

a)

let in on something

b)

taken up

c)

beaten up

d)

spotted

16.

"Leave my _______ brother alone, you hear?"

a)

dull

b)

kid

c)

jumped

d)

wisecracker

17.

Leave it to good old Steve to _______ something like that.

a)

bring up

b)

take up

c)

cut up

d)

let someone in on

18.

He just had to ________________________ to brighten up their _______ lives.

a)

take the police up; fierce

b)

shake the police like a leaf; pretty

c)

let the police in on it; dull

d)

blow the police off steam; tough

19.

I knew I was as white as I felt and I was ________________________.

a)

shaking like a leaf

b)

taking up like a plane

c)

beating up like a Greaser

d)

blowing off like steam

20.

Two-Bit Mathews was the oldest of the gang and the _________________ of the _______.

a)

tough; gang

b)

fierce; crowd

c)

kid; cooler

d)

wisecracker; bunch