WorksheetsQuiz: The Outsiders Chps. 9-12
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 25mins
What does Ponyboy ask each of his buddies before the rumble?
What's your favorite food?
Do you like being a greaser?
What time are we leaving?
Why do you like to fight?
Who shows up unexpectedly at the rumble?
Cherry
Randy
Dally
Johnny
After the rumble, how do Dally and Pony get to the hospital so fast?
Dally lies to the police to get an escort.
They both run as fast as they can.
Two-bit drives them in his car.
The call an ambulance to come get them.
On the way to the hospital, Dally give Ponyboy some advice. What is it?
"Ponyboy, you really need to work on your fighting skills."
"You better wise up, Pony. You get tough like me, and you don't get hurt."
"You wanna go get something to eat?"
" I'm changing my ways after this rumble, Ponyboy. I'm done with being a hoodlum."
After Dally tells Johnny that the greasers won the rumble, what does he (Johnny) say?
He congratulates Dally and Ponyboy, and he tells them that he wishes he could have been there.
Johnny asks when he will be able to go home.
He tells Dally that fighting is doesn't do any good; it's useless.
Johnny tells Ponyboy that he is almost finished with Gone with the Wind.
What were Johnny's last words to Ponyboy?
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold..."
:Stay real, Ponyboy. Stay real..."
"Stay tuff, Ponyboy. Stay tuff..."
"Stay mean, Ponyboy. Stay mean..."
After Johnny dies, Dally runs out of the room. What does he (Dally) use "as a bluff" before the police shoot him down?
a switchblade
a heater (handgun)
a bow and arrow
a machete
Ponyboy said, "Two friends of mine died that night. One a ________, the other a __________."
16-year-old, 17-year-old
friend, enemy
greasers, Socs
hero, hoodlum
After Johnny and Dally die, Ponyboy...
has to stay in bed because of a concussion.
goes right back to school.
asks Cherry out on a date.
becomes a Socs.
Ponyboy has to attend a hearing about all the previous events with Johnny and Dally. What is the result?
Ponyboy is found guilty, and has to go to prison.
Ponyboy has to go to reform school.
Ponyboy is found not guilty, and the brothers can stay together.
Ponyboy runs away before the hearing happens.
After everything returns to normal. Ponyboy begins failing all his classes in school. What deal does his English teacher offer him?
Mr. Syme would allow him to make up all the work he failed in order to pass Ponyboy.
Mr. Syme tells Ponyboy that he would pass him with a "C" if he writes a good semester theme (essay).
Mr. Syme tells Pony that if he does chores on the weekend at his house, he will pass him.
Mr. Syme tells Pony that he must stay after school every day for the rest of the school year to pass.
Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny in Gone with the Wind. What does Johnny basically tell Ponyboy in this letter?
Johnny tells Ponyboy to get even meaner than Dally and to get even with the Socs.
Johnny convinces Ponyboy to run away from Tulsa and start a new life where no one knows him.
Johnny encourages Ponyboy to "Stay gold," meaning he should remain the way he is- sensitive, caring, kind.
Johnny wants Ponyboy to turn Johnny's parents into the police for child cruelty.
What is the semester theme (essay) that Ponyboy ends up writing?
Gone with the Wind
The Outsiders
The greasers and Socs
My Trip to the Zoo
Who said it?
"Johnny and Dallas were our buddies, too, but you don't just stop living because you lose someone."
Darry
Tim Shepard
Cherry
Sodapop
Who said it?
" Ponyboy, I'm telling you the truth. I dropped out because I'm dumb. I really did try in school, but you saw my grades. Look, I'm happy working in a gas station with cars."
Darry
Steve
Sodapop
Two-bit
Who said it?
"I tried to write that theme when I got home. I really did, mostly because Darry told me to or else. I thought about writing about Dad, but I couldn't. It's going to be a long time before I can even think about my parents. A long time."
Ponyboy
Darry
Sodapop
Steve
