WorksheetsThe Outsiders Test
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 48mins
What influenced S.E. Hinton to write The Outsiders?
She was disgusted with lack a girl books for her age.
She noticed the division between social classes in her own high school.
She thought it would be a good story.
It was a true story about her brother and his gang of friends.
How old was S.E. Hinton when she began writing The Outsiders?
20
15
21
18
Who narrated the novel, The Outsiders?
Sodapop
Ponyboy
an outside source, third person POV
Johnny
S.E. Hinton
How does The Outsiders's point of view affect us as the reader?
We miss out on some events because we only experience what Ponyboy tells us.
We see and hear about everything from all of the characters.
We experience everything because Sodapop tells us everything that happened.
Since the novel is told from third-person POV, we are limited to what the narrator wants to tell us.
Which characters are not in the main greaser gang with Ponyboy?
Two-Bit Matthews
Tim Shepard
Paul Holden
Steve
Sodapop Curtis
Which word best describes Steve?
Wimpy
Confident
Frightened
Immature
Which group do you believe S.E. Hinton sympathizes with the most based on the context of the novel?
Socs
Greasers
Why does Soda like to fight?
He likes a challenge.
He likes to show off his muscles.
He does it because everyone else does.
He does not like to fight.
Why does Two-Bit like to fight?
He likes a challenge.
He likes to show off his muscles.
He does it because everyone else does.
He does not like to fight.
What word best describes Darry Curtis?
stubborn
protective
frightened
well-liked
What word best describes Sodapop Curtis?
Considerate
Confident
Optimistic
Self-centered
What word best describes Dallas Winston?
optimistic
angry
Dangerous
Self-centered
Who did Dally care about most?
Darry
Slyvia
Ponyboy
Johnny
Two-Bit
What words best describe Johnny Cade?
optimistic; hopeful
lonely; introvert
Dangerous; risky
anxious; panicky
Who jumped Johnny 4 months ago?
Randy
Bob
The Socs in the red Corvair
Ponyboy was jumped, not Johnny
Who works at the DX gas station?
Johnny
Sodapop
Two-Bit
Steve
Darry
Read the following quote. What event does it foreshadow?
"Johnny... now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He'd use it, too, if he ever got jumped again."
Johnny dying
Bob getting murdered
Ponyboy killing Bob
Dally's death
What was Sodapop's favorite pet?
a horse, Mickey Mouse
a dog, Mickey Mouse
a cat, Giggles
a horse, Chewbacca
What sport did Ponyboy play at school?
football
soccer
track
cross country
Who is the comedic relief of the gang?
Steve
Dally
Two-Bit
Sodapop
What word best describes Cherry Valance?
strange
stubborn
smart
athletic
What do Cherry and Ponyboy have in common?
watching the stars
English class
watching sunsets
hating Socs
Why are Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive-in movie theater?
Their boyfriends left because it was a bad movie.
They were having a girls' night out.
Their boyfriends were buying food at the concession stand.
They left their boyfriends because the boys were drunk.
What was Ponyboy pride?
his novel, Gone With The Wind
his long hair
his name
his brother, Sodapop
Read the following quote. What event was foreshadowed through this quote?
"We were careful with our cigarettes--if that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it."
Johnny's death
Dally's death
The church catching on fire
Johnny and Pony running inside to help the kids
How and when did the Curtis parents die?
Murdered by Socs 4 months ago
car accident 5 years ago
Died fighting the Socs 8 months ago
Car accident 8 months ago
Why couldn't Johnny leave the hospital?
burned and paralyzed
His parents would not come get him out.
He was released right before the rumble.
He was burned to much from the church
When Johnny and Ponyboy go see Dally after Bob is killed, what does he give them?
money
gun
a letter
a jacket
a plan/location
What is another name for cigarettes in The Outsiders?
a smoke
a weed
a stick
a pack
Who won the rumble?
The Socs
Nobody
The Greasers
Why wouldn't Cherry go see Johnny in the hospital?
She hated Johnny
She hated hospitals
She couldn't face who killed Bob
She went to see him after the rumble was over
According to Cherry, what made Bob so different from the crowd?
he was sweet
she loved him
people wanted to follow him
he didn't actually like to drink
What does it mean when the judge acquitted Ponyboy?
He found him guilty and went to a boys' home.
He cleared and released Pony.
He found the hearing to be a waste of time.
Ponyboy was not mentally stable to be able to answer questions..
Which evidence best supports that Dally wanted the cops to shoot and kill him?
"even as the lot echoed with the cracks of shots, even as I begged silently--Please, not him... not him and Johnny both--I knew he would be dead..."
"Dally has reached the circle of light under the street lamp, and skidding to a halt, he turned and jerked a black object from his waistband."
"I remember his voice: I been carryin' a heater. It ain't loaded, but it sure does help a bluff."
"You blasted fool. They don't know you're only bluffing. And even as the policeman's guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted."
What figurative language was used in the following quote?
Johnny "was as pale as the pillow and looked awful."
alliteration
hyperbole
simile
allusion
personification
Which is NOT a way Ponyboy changed toward the end of the novel?
he was failing some classes
he was forgetting things
he was more aggressive towards Socs
he was no longer smart
he quit eating as much
Select all who went to the hospital to visit Johnny.
Johnny's mother
Two-Bit
Dally
Steve
Cherry
Why was the gang important to Johnny?
The gang was the only place Johnny had love and family because his own parents did not.
Johnny was an orphan and would have to live in foster care if he did not stay with the gang.
The gang needed Johnny to stay together.
Johnny parents died and left Darry in charge of him.
During his recover after the rumble and his friends' death, Ponyboy
believed he killed Bob, not Johnny.
believed greasers were a waste of human life.
believed Johnny was not dead.
wrote The Outsiders.
Infer the kind of doctor Ponyboy was seeing.
Choose the best answer.
concussion
therapist
biologist
psychologist
According to Randy, what was Bob's biggest problem?
he was sweet
he loved Cherry too much
no one ever told him "No"; spoiled
He liked to drink too much
Johnny, Dally, and Bob are all
Socs
outsiders
greasers
dead
Fill in the black with the correct answer.
Johnny and Ponyboy meet Cherry and Marcia.
Johnny and Ponyboy fall asleep in the lot.
Ponyboy goes home late.
Darry is mad at Ponyboy for being late.
_______________________________
The blue Mustang full of Socs drive up to Johnny and Pony in the park.
Darry slapped Ponyboy.
Ponyboy and Johnny run away to the church,
Bob beats up Johnny.
Johnny murdered Bob.
Fill in the black with the correct answer.
Johnny killed Bob.
Johnny and Ponyboy get help from Dally.
______________________
Johnny and Ponyboy hide out in the abandoned church.
Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy go to Dairy Queen.
Darry slapped Ponyboy.
The church caught on fire.
Johnny and Ponyboy save the kids from the church.
Johnny and Ponyboy hitch a ride on a train to Windrixville.
What were Johnny's last words to Ponyboy?
"Tell Dally to watch a sunset."
"Stay gold."
"Tell Cherry, 'Sorry'."
"Stay good."
Who said, "You get tough like me and you don't get hurt?"
Johnny
Two-Bit
Darry
Dally
Which statement from the novel did Ponyboy learn to find true?
You get tough and nothing can hurt you.
Things are rough all over.
You should keep your problems to yourself.
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
What did Cherry Valance mean when she said, "Things are rough all over."
The ground can be hard to walk on.
Socs have it easy
Greasers have it easy
Everyone faces difficult times in life.
What did Ponyboy write for his English theme paper?
His parents' life and car accident that killed them.
The story of the Greasers and Socs in his neighorhood called The Outsiders.
The life that he shares with his two brothers, Darry and Sodapop.
His first trip to the zoo.
What is the climax of The Outsiders?
Johnny murdered Bob
Johnny and Ponyboy save the kids
Dally threatens the cops to shoot and kill him
Johnny died
