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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Dally to leave the Soc girls alone?

2. What is the name of the grown-up who is at the fire?

3. What are the names of the girls Ponyboy and the greasers meet at the drive-in?

4. Where do Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit walk to with Cherry and Marcia after they leave the movies?

5. Who does Cherry say would not understand if she hung out with Ponyboy at school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ponyboy realize that Darry truly cares for him?

2. Why do Johnny and Ponyboy go find Dally after the fight in the park?

3. What news does Dally give Ponyboy and Johnny when he comes to see them at the church?

4. Describe the park that Johnny and Ponyboy go to in Chapter 4.

5. Explain how Ponyboy and Johnny are heroic during the fire.

6. What is Ponyboy's living arrangement?

7. How do Johnny and Ponyboy realize that they are not alone at the park?

8. What does Soda tell Ponyboy in the letter he sends with Dally?

9. What do Cherry and Ponyboy talk about while getting concessions at the drive-in?

10. What does Ponyboy do when he wakes up in the church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the similarities between the greasers and the Socs. How are they not really all that different from each other? Why does each group think the other is better off? What specific events or conversations in the novel indicate that the two groups have some things in common?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the relationships between the Curtis brothers. What is Ponyboy's relationship with Darry like? With Soda? How do these relationships change throughout the novel? What events change these relationships, and how?

Essay Topic 3

Compare The Outsiders to a similar rivalry story. Discuss how violence & friendships that arise between the groups, etc. are handled in each story.

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