The Outsiders Study Guide



The Outsiders Study Guide 2010

Name ______________________________

**This test is worth 180 points! Please be prepared for the test. You will NOT be permitted to use the book on the test. The first 5 sections are worth 3 points per question. The extended response questions are worth 15 points each (for a total of 30 points).

1. Character Identification: Be familiar with each of the characters physical descriptions, relationship to the greasers, and important actions the character takes in the book. These are the characters you need to be familiar with:

✓ Sodapop

✓ Steve

✓ Ponyboy

✓ Cherry

✓ Bob

✓ Jerry

✓ Two-Bit

✓ Dally

✓ Randy

✓ Darry

✓ Johnny

2. Cause/effect: Be able to match an ending statement for a specific cause:

For example:

✓ Ponyboy leaves home………………..

3. Matching characters with important quotations that are said in the book. Be familiar with who said the following quotations:

✓ “…you don’t just stop living because you lose someone. I thought you know that by now. You don’t quit!”

✓ “I can’t stand fights………….I can’t stand them…………..”

✓ “Why do people sell liquor to boys? Why? I know there’s a law against it, but kids get it anyway.”

✓ “I think I like it better when the old man’s hittin’ me.”

✓ “Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”

✓ “He’s hard as a rock and about as human…..He thinks I’m a pain in the neck……..”

✓ “To have somebody lay down the law, set the limits, give him something solid to stand on. That’s what we all want, really.”

✓ “Rat race is a perfect name for it. We’re always going and going and going, and never asking where.”

✓ “If they win, things go on as usual. If we do, they stay outa our territory but good.”

✓ “There sure is a lot of blood in people.”

4. True/false.

5. Multiple-choice. I would review your chapter questions/quizzes to prepare for these two sections.

6. Extended response. Please choose ONE of the following in each section (quotes and essays). You need to write in paragraph form and answer the question fully, with many accurate details! You have six choices in each section, so choose the one you are the most comfortable with and can be the most detailed about. You will have class time to work on this and it will be due the day of the final test: Monday, December 13, 2010. Write and answer these on YOUR OWN paper, or type it! (

QUOTES (choose one of these for the test; 15 pts): You will be expected to tell me everything you know about the quote you pick (who, what, where, when, why and how for each).

o “Tonight – I don’t like it one bit”

o “I don’t care about Darry. But I was still lying and I knew it. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

o “Hate to tell you this, kiddo,” the guy said dryly, “but you’re bleedin’ all over my car seats.”

o “I said we’re goin’ back and turn ourselves in…”

o “I’d rather have anybody’s hate than their pity.”

o “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home…”

ESSAYS (choose one of these for the test; 15 pts):

✓ Compare and contrast Johnny and Dally. What roles do they play in the novel? What roles do they play in Ponyboy’s life?

✓ Discuss Ponyboy’s evolving conception of the Socs. How does his opinion of the Socs at the end of the novel differ from his opinion at the beginning?

✓ Compare and contract the Curtis brothers, Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy. How does their relationship change over the course of the novel?

✓ How are the circumstances of Ponyboy’s life better by the end of the story? How are they worse? Use the word circumstance in your response.

✓ Ponyboy likes to go to the movies to escape the reality of his own life. If you were to choose a movie that best gives YOU the opportunity to escape your own life, what movie would you select and WHY?

✓ The perfect gift: You will be responsible for choosing a different and school appropriate gift for THREE of the characters from The Outsiders. Your gifts must be selected from the items you have available. I do not want you to buy anything! Describe or draw a picture of each gift, name the person it will be given to, and explain what it is and why it is the perfect gift for him or her.

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