The Outsiders Chapters 1-5

Question 1

What are the two social classes or gangs in The Outsiders?

Accepted Answer

Socs and Greasers

Question 2

What is meant by the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?

Accepted Answer

Nothing can stay pure and innocent

Question 3

Why does Cherry say, "not to take it personal" if she doesn't talk to Pony at school on Monday?

Accepted Answer

The are in different social groups and that's just how it is

Question 4

What does "reeling pickled" mean?

Accepted Answer

drunk

Question 5

What can we infer about Cherry's character that she is willing to be a spy for the Greasers?

Accepted Answer

She will do what is right regardless of what group she is in

Question 6

Why did Sodapop drop out of school?

Accepted Answer

To get a job and help pay the bills

Question 7

What side of town do the Greasers live in?

Accepted Answer

East

Question 8

Who are Pony's older brothers?

Accepted Answer

Soda and Darry

Question 9

When Two-Bit and Marcia were joking, why did she say they(the two girls) had picked them up?

Accepted Answer

because they were Arabian slave traders

Question 10

What did Two-Bit hand Pony when the Socs stopped them after the drive in movies?

Accepted Answer

pop bottle

Question 11

How old is Johnny?

Accepted Answer

16

Question 12

Who does Johnny consider to be a hero?

Accepted Answer

Dally

Question 13

"Johnny couldn't say "___" to a goose.

Accepted Answer

Boo

Question 14

Where did Dallas Winston come from?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 15

How old is Dally?

Accepted Answer

17

Question 16

Who does Johnny stab at the fountain?

Accepted Answer

Bob

Question 17

What side of town do the Socs live in?

Accepted Answer

West

Question 18

What type of car were the Socs driving when the jumped Pony?

Accepted Answer

Red Corvair

Question 19

What car were the Socs driving when Johnny got jumped?

Accepted Answer

Blue Mustang

Question 20

What town does this story take place in?

Accepted Answer

Tulsa

Question 21

Pony said, " Maybe we couldn't have Corvairs or madras shirts, but we could have _________.

Accepted Answer

hair

Question 22

What does Cherry say the difference is between Greaser and Socs

Accepted Answer

money and feelings

Question 23

Why does Pony realize that he doesn't like Dallas Winston?

Accepted Answer

Dallas is too real

Question 24

Who did Mickey Mouse "belong" to?

Accepted Answer

Soda

Question 25

Who stuck up against Dally for saying bad things to Cherry?

Accepted Answer

Johnny

Question 26

Who wrote the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?

Accepted Answer

Robert Frost

Question 27

What does is signify that they like to look at sunsets?

Accepted Answer

they appreciate the beauty in the world

Question 28

How old is Darry?

Accepted Answer

20

Question 29

Which character is considered the "pet" of the gang?

Accepted Answer

Johnny

Question 30

How did Pony's parents die?

Accepted Answer

Car Wreck

Question 31

Who is the leader of the Greasers?

Accepted Answer

Darry

Question 32

What did it mean that Pony and Cherry both watched the sunsets?

Accepted Answer

they weren't so different from each other

Question 33

Who wrote this book?

Accepted Answer

S.E. Hinton

Question 34

How old is Pony?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 35

What two Soc girls did Pony, Johnny, and Dally meet at the Drive-In movies?

Accepted Answer

Cherry and Marcia

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