Questions on The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton (Part 2)

Chapters 2~4

1.    Where do Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny first meet the red-haired girl, Cherry Valance? 

2.    To Cherry’s question about Sodapop, Ponyboy responds that he dropped out of school to work in a ________________.

3.    What are the greasers’ two main rules, according to Two-Bit? One, always stick together. Two, _______________________.

4.    Ponyboy tells her about the time the Socs beat up Johnny. The leader of the gang that beat him wore a fistful of __________.

5.    What does Cherry tell Ponyboy about Socs? (Hint: Ponyboy does not believe this) 

6.    What does Ponyboy say when Cherry asks him to describe Darry? (Hint: Ponyboy’s response startles Johnny and Two-Beat)

7.    What do Ponyboy and Cherry find that they have in common? (What do they both like?) 

8-9.        Cherry and Ponyboy decide that the main difference between Socs and greasers is that Socs are too cool and aloof to acknowledge their _________ and that they live their lives trying to fill up their emotional void, while the greasers ______ everything too intensely. 

10. When a blue Mustang pulls up, and Randy and Bob get out, what does Ponyboy notice about Bob? 

11. Before leaving, Cherry tells Ponyboy that she hopes she won’t see Dally again, because _________________________________.

12. When Ponyboy gets home, Darry is furious because he stayed out so late. Why does Ponyboy storm out of the house in a rage after that? 

13. What does Ponyboy tell Johnny in the lot where the greasers hang out, after two o’clock in the morning? 

14. What happens at 2:30 in the morning while Ponyboy and Johnny go walking beside the fountain?

15. What does Johnny do to save Ponyboy from drowning?

16. When Ponyboy and Johnny go to Dally to ask for help, what does he give them?

17. Where does Dally instruct Ponyboy and Johnny to go? 

18. What do Ponyboy and Johnny do as soon as they arrive at the place (answer to #17)?

19. What is greasers’ primary identifying symbol?

20. Ponyboy thinks: “Johnny and I would be hiding for the rest of our lives. Nobody but Dally would know where we were, and he couldn’t tell anyone because he’d get jailed again for ______________________________.”