The Outsiders Questions



The Outsiders Questions

Chapter 1

• What happened to the main characters’ parents?

• What happens when he is walking home from the movies?

• How does he get out of this situation?

• What’s the difference between “tough” and “tuff?”

• According to the main character what kind of girls like greasers?

Chapter 2:

• What drive-ins do the Socs go to? What drive-ins do the greasers go to?

• What is “the fuzz?”

• What is the red headed girl’s full name?

• What does Cherry do with the coke that Dally gave her?

• What does Ponyboy think Cherry’s idea of a good time consists of?

• What is the greaser’s one rule besides stick together?

• What does Cherry tell Ponyboy after he tells her the story of Johnny getting beat up?

Chapter 3:

• What does Pony think it might be that separates the greasers and the socs?

• What does he determine to be the real reason for the differences between them (Hint: bottom of page 38)?

• Why do you think that Cherry says to Pony that she might not say ‘hi’ to him if she sees him at school?

• Where does Pony think that it would be better? Do you think that it would be better there?

• What happens when Pony gets home? What does Pony do?

Chapter 4

• Who is the park left for?

• What happens to Pony at the park?

• What does Johnny do at the park?

• What does Dally give Pony and Johnny? What does he tell them to do?

• What is Pony’s excuse for why he is asking the farmer where Jay’s Mountain is?

• Why did Pony stop going to church?

Chapter 5:

• What is the signal for the greasers for “who’s there?”

• Why does Johnny say that judges make people cut their hair?

• What book does Johnny buy?

• Why does Johnny say that Dally is ‘gallant?’

• What is Pony an addict of?

• Who shows up at the church?

• What does Soda give Pony (2 things)?

• Who is the greasers “spy?”

Chapter 6

• What does Johnny want to do?

• Why does Dally not want Johnny in jail?

• What happens to the church?

• Who saves the little kids?

• What does Pony say when the man tells him he must be from heaven?

• What does Pony realize about Darry toward the end of the chapter?

• Does Noah Utterback need a haircut?

Chapter 7:

• Why does Jerry say they took so many pictures?

• If Pony could do anything in the world what would it be?

• What injuries does Johnny have?

• How does Pony get in his house?

• Who cooks breakfast and who does the dishes?

• Why is the door never locked?

• What is the headline in the paper?

• Who is “Superman?”

• What happened to Sandy, Soda’s girlfriend?

• What nickname does Darry use for Sodapop?

• Who ends up doing the dishes?

• What does Ponyboy realize at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 8:

• Who shows up at the hospital that Johnny does not want to see?

• What does Dally ask Two-bit for?

• What is the only thing that keeps Darry from being a soc?

• What soc is not going to show up at the rumble?

• Why does Cherry say that she will not go and visit Johnny in the hospital?

• What question does Ponyboy ask Cherry at the end of the chapter? What is Cherry’s answer?

Chapter 9:

• According to Ponyboy who pays a lot for funny things?

• Why does Pony have a scar on his finger?

• What is the deciding factor in letting Pony fight?

• What got Soda and Two-bit jailed once?

• What happened the one time that Pony drank alcohol?

• What are the reasons that each greaser fights? What does Pony say is the only good reason to fight? Do you agree with Pony? Why or why not?

• Why does Pony say that Darry will not turn into an old hood?

• What is a heater?

• Why do people never look to blame the socs?

• Who starts the fight for the greasers?

• How did Dally get out of the hospital?

• Who wins the rumble?

• Where does Dally take Pony immediately following the rumble?

• What excuse does Dally give the policeman? Does it work?

• Why does the doctor let Dally and Pony see Johnny?

• Who dies at the end of the chapter? What were their last words?

Chapter 11:

• Who is the person in the yearbook?

• What does Randy want to talk to Pony about?

• Who does Pony say killed Bob?

Chapter 12:

• What do Darry and Soda say when the judge asks if Dally was a good buddy of theirs?

• What happened to Pony’s grades in Math and English?

• What is Pony supposed to write his English paper on?

• What does Pony do when the Socs show up?

• Why is Soda so upset?

• What did Soda do the entire week that Pony was gone?

• Why do the boys tie in the race?

• Why did Johnny say it was worth saving the kids in the church?

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