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Test your knowledge of "The Outsiders" with this comprehensive study guide. Explore key themes, vocabulary, and plot details through various interactive activities.
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Vocabulary/ Reading Comprehension Fill in the blanks True or False Basic Story Details Cause and Effect $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500
C1 $100 Why was the gang so important to Johnny?
C1 $100 They were his family. His father beat him and his mother mainly ignored him.
C1 $200 Darry always leaves the front door of the house unlocked. Why does he do this and what does it say about his character?
C1 $200 He wants other Greasers to be able to crash at their house if needed. He is not always as strict as he seems.
C1 $300 Why is Dally annoyed when he, Ponyboy and Johnny leave the Dairy Queen?
C1 $300 Johnny has decided they should turn themselves in.
C1 $400 Why is Johnny’s death so hard on Dally?
C1 $400 He feels he has nobody else to love.
C1 $500 Give two themes of The Outsiders.
C1 $500 People should look at each other for who they are on the inside. Family ties are important. There are negative consequences for involvement with gangs. Etc.
C2 $100 Ponyboy walks home alone from the movies at the start of the novel.
C2 $100 This sets up the opening conflict when the Socs jump him.
C2 $200 Cherry and Dally argue at the drive-in.
C2 $200 Dally leaves and a friendship emerges between Cherry, Ponyboy and Johnny.
C2 $300 Darry slaps Ponyboy.
C2 $300 Ponyboy gets Johnny and they go to the park where they encounter the Socs.
C2 $400 Ponyboy gets the copy of Gone with the Wind that Johnny left for him.
C2 $400 Ponyboy finds a letter Johnny left for him. It states that he was glad to save the kids. Also, that he wants Ponyboy to “stay gold” and to give some advice to Dally.
C2 $500 When Ponyboy is in the hospital, he sees Darry crying.
C2 $500 Ponyboy realizes how much Darry loves him, and the importance of family (a major theme of the novel).
C3 $100 Worried, scared, anxious or disappointed? Which word best describes how Ponyboy felt after Johnny killed Bob?
C3 $100 Scared
C3 $200 Scared, saddened, take charge or aloof. Which word best describes Johnny at the church fire?
C3 $200 Take charge
C3 $300 Dally says he carried an unloaded gun to “help a bluff.” What does this mean?
C3 $300 To scare people away without actually having to load it or use it. (To intimidate others)
C3 $400 “Nothing Gold Can Stay” provides a unique symbol for the novel. Explain what this poem means.
C3 $400 Answers vary
C3 $500 Gallant, leery, aghast or incredulous? What vocabulary word is used by Ponyboy to describe how Dally died?
C3 $500 Gallant
C4 $100 After the church fire, the newspaper article about Johnny, Ponyboy and Dally said what? Juvenile _______ turn _______.
C4 $100 delinquents, heroes
C4 $200 The Outsiders closes with a ________ to the beginning of the story.
C4 $200 flashback
C4 $300 Because he is in shock over the events that recently occurred, Ponyboy’s _______ grade drops to a ___.
C4 $300 English, D
C4 $400 Randy reveals that what Bob really needed was some ________ in his life. He needed someone to tell him ____.
C4 $400 discipline, no
C4 $500 In Johnny’s letter to Ponyboy, he writes about how he feels about dying and the kids he saved living. He says: Their _____ are worth more than _____. They have more to _____ for.
C4 $500 lives, mine, live
C5 $100 Dally is worried that Darry and Soda will find out he helped Johnny and Ponyboy.
C5 $100 False
C5 $200 Johnny is not happy that his mother comes to see him at the hospital.
C5 $200 True.
C5 $300 At one point in the novel, Ponyboy realizes that Darry would be a Soc, if not for the Greasers.
C5 $300 True
C5 $400 Dally begins the big rumble and it is against Paul Holden, someone he used to go to school with.
C5 $400 False – it is Darry
