The Outsiders Notes Test Review

"I was planning on getting boozed up tomorrow night."

Watch the following video and answer: This part of The Outsiders is considered the

"Wisecracker of the bunch. About 6 feet tall, stocky in build, and very proud of his long rusty-colored sideburns."

"Movie-star kind of handsome, the kind that people stop by on the street to watch go by."

The book has never been out of _______.

Darry, Two-Bit, Steve, Soda, Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboy are all related.

The book's setting is in the city of

Match the physical description that best fits each character: "Six-feet-two, and broad-shouldered and muscular."

Match the correct dialogue with the correct character to reveal personality traits. "Leave her alone, Dally."

Hinton uses ______ descriptions to describe characters but also uses ________ traits to describe the way they behave.

"You don't ever think; not at home or anywhere when it counts."

Hinton was a high school _______ when she wrote The Outsiders.

"I have light-brown, almost red-hair and greenish gray eyes. I'm kind of small for fourteen."

Hinton uses her initials rather than her given name on the advice of her publisher because

___________ is the literary term for both physical and personality traits.

"He had an elfish face, with high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small, sharp animal teeth, and ears like lynx."

"Leave my kid brother alone, you hear?"

"I wouldn't drink it if I was starving in the desert. Get lost, hood!"

"What were you doin', walkin by your lonesome?"

Hinton also had a small role in the movie. She played Dally's _______.

"I was coming home from the movies. I didn't think..."

"I'm never nice. Want a Coke?"

"They were tuff-looking girls--dressed sharp. One had long, red hair."

The director of the movie divided the novel into three sections: thought, dialogue, and _______.

The book was published in ________.

Hinton also wrote the book because she was upset with the ________ situation at her high school.

Hinton attended ______________ high school.

"Tall and lean, with thick, greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls. Soda's best buddy since grade school"

Hinton wrote The Outsiders for two reasons. She liked to read and liked to

"If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers.."