The Outsiders – Unit Test Class Set – Please do not write on this copy.

What do I need to know to study to do well?

Study the vocabulary squares and know the meaning of the following:

  1. Anecdote
  2. Characterization
  3. Protagonist
  4. Antagonist
  5. Dynamic character
  6. Static character
  7. Conflict
  8. Internal Conflict
  9. External Conflict

Narrative Elements in The Outsiders

  • Recognize an example of internal conflict in the plot of The Outsiders
  • Recognize an example of external conflict in the plot of The Outsiders
  • SE Hinton uses flashback to show that Johnny’s relationship with his parents. Be able to describe the relationship
  • Symbolism – What does the blue mustang symbolize?

Plot and The Outsiders – Apply the elements of plot, the sequence of events, to parts of the story.

  • In the exposition of the story, we are introduced to the characters, after we learn that Ponyboy had been cornered by the Socs for a ______.
  • Part of the rising action includes
  • The climax of the story occurs when
  • Part of the falling action includes
  • The resolution of the story happens when

Know the following:

-The author

-The narrator of The Outsiders

-In the opening scene of the story, Ponyboy is walking home from the movies when he is jumped the Socs. They threaten to do what?

-What is Ponyboy's real name?
-Who kills Dally?
-Which character has movie-star good looks?
-Who bleaches Ponyboy's hair?
-Although Ponyboy agrees with Johnny that a disguise is a good idea, he resists cutting off his hair because
-Who is Randy?
What does Ponyboy say is visible on both the East Side and the West Side?
-What was the name of Sodapop's horse?
-How did the Curtis brothers' parents die?
-At the end of the story, Ponyboy threatens the Socs, when they approach him outside of the convenience store, with a ______.
-Why are Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive-in?
-How does Ponyboy get a concussion?
______is the town where the abandoned church located where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out.
-Which character dies first?
-What kind of car does Cherry drive?
-How old is Darry?
-How does Darry know Paul Holden, his first opponent at the rumble?
-Why did Ponyboy think it was fair for him to help Dally in the rumble?
-Where did Dally and Ponyboy go after the fight?
-What were Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy?
-Dally carried an empty gun as a bluff and then pulled it out as the police closed in. Why?
-Ponyboy found Darry asleep in the chair next to his bed. Why?
-What was wrong with Ponyboy after the rumble? Why had he slept so long?
-At the end of the story, Darry and Ponyboy began to fight, but Soda bolted out the door. He dropped Sandy’s letter that had been returned unopened. They went after him and caught him at the park. What did they decide?
-When Johnny’s note to Ponyboy fell out of Gone with the Wind, what did it say?
-Ponyboy called his teacher and asked him how long his theme paper needed to be. What did he decide to write about?

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